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(CNN) Boston politicians and religious leaders came together on Tuesday to mourn and decry the vandalism at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston the night before, the second time the site has been attacked this summer.

Looming over the solemn gathering were the brazen anti-Semitic slurs and chants that echoed hundreds of miles away this weekend, when neo-Nazis and other white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia,

"How can this be in this country, in this city, so near to the graves of patriots who fought for freedom and liberty in this place?" said Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, referring to the vandalism.

"What did we see over the weekend in Charlottesville? What do we have to think about this? When we see those clownish figures in their Nazi uniforms pretending to be human, pretending to be something more than they are, pretending to be important. It's important to remember what that represents."

Where, Shrage asked, "is the Franklini Roosevelt who led our country against Nazism. Where is our president. Where is the condemnation of evil?"

"Our children's and grandchildren's futures will be compromised if we do not stand up and condemn evil!" @BarryShrage @CJPBoston pic.twitter.com/iOjUdkAqw3 — Boston JCRC (@BostonJCRC) August 15, 2017

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