BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. -- Tamara Chomiak said, "Shock, disbelief. It was very emotional."
Obscene language and two swastikas were found on the side of one of her family's summer resort cabins. Another swastika was found on the dumpster, and more graffiti on the welcome sign at the Twin Bay Village.
Chomiak said, "Whoever did this, they have to be very ignorant because they don't know what my family went through."
The Chomiaks bought the property after fleeing the Ukraine in 1957. Members of her family who were lucky enough to escape now reside at the resort in Bolton Landing.
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Chomiak said, "Most of my family members perished during the Holocaust at Nazi hands. my mother, my grandmother, my aunts, they were in concentration camps."
Since the graffiti was sprayed on the resort, Chomiak's mother has had reoccurring nightmares about the Holocaust, where she estimates 75 percent of her family was killed.
Chomiak said, "Everything has just been brought back up to the surface."
The family said until this incident, they considered Bolton Landing to be a safe haven for their family, who has already suffered so much persecution.
Chomiak said, "I thought I lived in a safe area, now I'm afraid to go out at night."
The town is still relatively quiet. Tourist season doesn't pick up until later on in the summer, and the family's resort doesn't open until June 1st, so they do have time to clean up the spray paint that's defacing their property.
But Tamara Chomiak said cleaning up the mess doesn't make it go away.
She said, "Today it's me. Tomorrow it could be you."
Both the state and local police are investigating the incident.