IT is difficult to imagine a more callous act than desecrating the memory of those who have died. Anyone who has lost a friend or loved one is aware of how the vestiges of their time with us are imbued with extra significance for those of us who strive to preserve their memory in our own hearts and minds, as well as the wider world.
Yet while imagination may strain, the use of Nazi iconography in alleged vandalism at Maitland's Jewish cemetery has taken an already heartless act to a new nadir.
