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LOS ANGELES - Several swastikas were discovered etched on a banner outside an elementary school in Tarzana on Sunday morning.

The discovery was made on the fence banner wrap outside Wilbur Charter for Enriched Academics. The vandalism occurred along the sidewalk where kids between 5 and 11 years old will be walking to class Monday morning. Neighbors say it’s also a heavily Jewish community.

"Both of us have family who were either in hiding or survived the Holocaust," said Michelle Eskenazi-Wasser. "To have that imagery right here in our backyard literally, it’s a lot."

Surveillance video from overnight Saturday shows someone etching the hate symbol into the school’s banner.

"It makes me feel really disappointed, because what did we do to them?" said Oliver Nemes, a student

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