[2] The earliest recorded burial at Mount Carmel Cemetery was in 1832.

The cemetery was desecrated in October 1982 by semi-literate vandals who knocked about 100 headstones over, left empty beer bottles, and marked a headstone with two swastikas and "Hile Hitler"(sic).

The incident caused concern, as it came less than a week after a vandal toplped and dismembered more than 150 gravestones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia.

[2][3] Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf released a statement saying, "The vandalism of Jewish headstones at a Phila.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stated, "I encourage Philadelphians to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters and to show them that we are the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.