Odesa is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021, Odesa's population was approximately 1,010,537. On 25 January 2023, its historic city centre was declared a World Heritage Site and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in recognition of its influence on cinema, literature, and the arts. The declaration was made in response to the bombing of Odesa during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has damaged or destroyed buildings across the city.
The Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the Transnistria Governorate during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 while it was under Romanian control. It was one of the worst massacres in Ukrainian territory.
Vinnytsia is a city in Central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It serves as the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast. It is the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It also serves as the administrative center of Vinnytsia Raion, one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of 369,739.
Berdychiv is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Berdychiv Raion within the oblast. It is 44 km (27 mi) south of the administrative center of the oblast, Zhytomyr. Its population is approximately 73,046.
Peter G. Loboda is a researcher of ancient history of the Northern Black Sea Region and antique numismatics. He is the founder and director of the Odesa Numismatics Museum.
Yosyf Samuyilovych Zisels, also Josef Zissels, is a Ukrainian human rights activist and former Soviet dissident.
Odesa National Fine Arts Museum or Odesa National Art Museum is one of the principal art galleries of the city of Odesa in Ukraine. Founded in 1899, it occupies the Potocki Palace, itself a monument of early 19th century architecture. The museum now houses more than 10 thousand pieces of art, including paintings by some of the best-known Russian and Ukrainian artists of late 19th and early 20th century. It is the only museum in Odesa that has free entrance day every last Sunday of the month.
Mayurov House, also known as the Roundhouse is a famous building in Odesa, Ukraine. It is located in the city center on the Hretska Ploshcha, dividing it into two parts: a round part and the Greek Market.
Hretska Square, or Hretska Ploshcha is one of the main squares of Odesa. It is on the crossing of Hretska Street and Ukrainskykh Heroiv Avenue. At different times it has been called Aleksandrovskaya or Martynovskogo. This is one of the biggest squares of Odesa. It is rectangular, with the oval building of Mayurov House in the center, also with semi-round houses on the sides.
Rabbi Shlomo Baksht is an Israeli-Ukrainian rabbi. He serves as Litvish rabbi in Odesa and Odesa Oblast and as the head of Odesa's Litvish community. He contributedto the dissemination and popularization of traditional Jewish values among the Jews of Odesa.
The Brodsky Synagogue in Odesa was built by the Jews from Brody in 1863 in Odesa, Ukraine. It was the largest synagogue in the south of the then Russian Empire. People came from all over the world to hear cantors sing there.
Monument to the founders of Odesa, also known as the monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions, was a monument located in Odesa, Ukraine, on Katerynska Square.
Vasyl Ponikarov was a Soviet and Ukrainian artist, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1971).
Roman Markovich Shvartsman is chairman of the Odesa regional Association of Jews – former prisoners of ghetto and Nazi concentration camps.
Museum of the Holocaust – victims of fascism, Odesa – the first Museum in Ukraine, which is based on the events of the genocide of the Jewish population in Transnistria Governorate.
The Museum of Concrete is the first museum in Ukraine dedicated to concrete. The museum is in Odesa on the site of an enterprise that produces building materials. The opening of the museum was held on December 5, 2017. At the time of the opening, two thematic halls were organized. Since January 2018, two rooms have been added. As of May 2018, the museum collection numbered about 2500 exhibits, which are associated with concrete and the technology of its production.
The fence exhibition is an exhibition of young artists Stanislav Sychov and Valentin Khrushch, organized in Odesa on 8 May 1967, on the fence of the Odesa Opera House.
The building of the Fesenko printing house, built in the Russian-Byzantine style with features of the 17th century baroque, still remains an adornment of the Richelievskaya, and its architecture is rare and atypical for Odesa. The reconstruction of the building for the printing house was supervised by the synodal architect Lev Prokopovich, and the superstructure of the third floor in 1899 was directed by Alexander Bernardazzi.
Pavlo Kozlenko is a historian, lawyer, PhD, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, researcher of the Holocaust and Jewish heritage during Roman occupation of Ukraine during World War II. Director of Odesa Holocaust – Victims of Fascism Museum, vice-president of Charity Foundation "Memory of Nazi Victims" (2011–2022), member of Coordination Council of Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, member of the Public Council of the State Archives of Odesa Region, elected member Public Council under the Odesa Regional State Administration of 2 convocations, poet. He is an author of books, scientific articles, and exhibitions about history of Holocaust, a participant of ethnographic expeditions to the former places of compact residence of Jews in the South of Ukraine, an active community member. Acts as an official opponent at the defense of dissertations, a member of the jury of the city competition of the Department of Science and Education of the Odesa City Council for the professional skills of teachers "Tolerance - the lessons of the Holocaust". President of the Charitable Foundation "Pam’yat. Gidnist. Svoboda". Member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Dobroe delo".
