About 20 graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery Gyongyos, a northeastern city in Hungary.
According to a Jewish leader, the damage to the graves, including the scattering of human remains, was "unprecedented."
A number of graves dating as far back as the late 1800s were of ancestors of some of the members of the recently re-established Jewish community in Gyongyos.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office condemned the "barbaric deed" and vowed to launch a program to renovate neglected cemeteries.
Hungary has seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the past several years, many of which were perpetrated by members and supporters of the openly anti-Semitic Jobbik party.
In November of 2012, one of Jobbik’s members released a statement saying that a list should be compiled of all of the Jewish members of government.
He was followed by another Jobbik member who called publicly for the resignation of a fellow MP who claimed to have Israeli citizenship.