Up to 200 graves in the Jewish community's biggest cemetery in Bucharest have been vandalized, Romanian authorities said Friday.

A spokesman for the Jewish community, Sergiu Rogosinschi, said that the

destruction affected some of the most valuable monuments in the sprawling

cemetery in Bucharest.

He said the vandalism was discovered early Thursday. Romanian authorities are investigating, and have condemned the vandalism.

The Jewish cemetery in south Bucharest holds 35,000 graves and more than 40,00 Jews are buried there, some victims of the Holocaust. None of the Holocaust victims' graves were damaged.