The Star of David has been graffitied on the doors of homes in Berlin, in a chilling echo of anti-Semitic persecution of Jewish people under the Nazis.
Pictures circulating online show the symbol was drawn on several buildings, with four cases reported to German police in recent days.
Jewish people living in the German capital have reported a rise in abuse following Hamas‘s bloody attack on Israel last week.
Among those targeted by vandalism was a young Jewish woman, who said she was shocked when she returned to her apartment on Thursday evening to find a star marked on her door.
The woman, who has a mezuzah – a Jewish house blessing – outside her flat, said that the incident was a ‘huge shock’ and left her ‘scared’.