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Holocaust Memorial Museum description and photos - Ukraine: Odessa. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Holocaust Memorial Museum was opened in Odessa in 2009, at 111 Malaya Arnautskaya Street. The creation of the museum was initiated by the Odessa Regional Association of Jews. All members of this organization were once prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos.

The main goal pursued by the founders of the museum is to convey to the next generations the truthful information about the tragedy of the Holocaust, to educate a generation of young people who can not only resist fascism but also to prevent its occurrence.

The museum funds contain unique information that clearly demonstrates the origins of fascism, the events that unfolded in Odessa during the occupation. Here you will learn about the formation of Transnistria, and about the terrible mass shootings of Jews, happening in different parts of the city. It also houses the Black Books of the Memory of those who died as a martyr in the camps and ghettos. The large exposition, consisting of personal belongings, documents, and recorded memories of former prisoners of Transnistria, is striking in its realism and tragedy.

The activities of the museum include research work, organizing meetings of former concentration camp prisoners, as well as their saviors - the Righteous Among the Nations. Thanks to creative evenings and book presentations, educational work is carried out among students and pupils. In addition, by the efforts of the museum workers, lists of the dead are being compiled, and new places of mass executions of Jews are identified and investigated.

A visit to this museum makes everyone think about the value of human life,

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