Pictures of the foundation stone ceremony for the Holocaust Memorial in Odesa

On 22 October, the foundation stone for a new memorial to the 1941 massacre was laid in Odesa. The future memorial is the result of an initiative of the Centre for Liberal Modernity and is funded by the German government.

In our photo series, we have captured moments of the foundation stone and the commem­o­ration ceremony. A detailed report will appear on LibMod shortly.

Musical intro­duction by Oleksii Zinchenko from the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Marieluise Beck, LibMod, welcomed the guests.

Greeting by Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov.

Svitlana Fabrykant, deputy governor, spoke on behalf of the Odesa regional administration.

The Parlia­mentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooper­ation and Devel­opment, Dr. Maria Flachs­barth, spoke via video message.

German Ambas­sador Anka Feldhusen gave her speech in fluent Ukrainian.

Speaking on behalf of Romania was Ambas­sador Alexandru Victor Micula, who is the Special Repre­sen­tative for Combating Anti-Semitism for the Romanian Foreign Ministry.

Ambas­sador Michaela Küchler, Special Repre­sen­tative for Relations with Jewish Organ­i­sa­tions, Issues Relating to Antisemitism, Inter­na­tional Sinti and Roma Affairs, and Holocaust Remem­brance, spoke on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office.

The Israeli Ambas­sador Michael Brodsky also addressed the guests via video message.

The last address was given by Roman Schwartsman, Holocaust survivor and chairman of the Regional Associ­ation of Jews and Former Prisoners of the Ghettos and Concen­tration Camps in Odesa.

In the end, Chief Rabbi Avroom Wolf said the Kaddish.

Commem­o­ration of the dead during the Kaddish.

The capsule was placed under the foundation stone for the start of the construction of the memorial.

According to Jewish burial tradition, small stones were placed on the foundation stone.

Avroom Wolf, Roman Schwartsman, Marieluise Beck, Hennadiy Truchanow, and Anka Feldhusen (from left to right) during the laying of the foundation stone.

The foundation stone marks the start of construction.

View from Lustdorf-Street into the avenue of nine stelae.

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