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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