This memorable date was introduced into the calendar by a decree of the Supreme Council of Ukraine at the bitter end of 2021. And the State of Israel of people of different nationalities, who risked their lives by protesting the death of the Jews, has been giving special honorary titles for a decade now. They are called the Righteous Among the Nations. This title is awarded by the Israeli Institute of Disaster and Heroism at Yad Vashem.

The righteous will receive a medal and their names will be commemorated on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. In total, more than 26.5 thousand people from hundreds of countries have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. Among them are the famous ones, such as Raoul Wallenberg, Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendler, Tiune Sugihara, and those who are not known to the whole world, but have lost the memory of their treasures. The title of Righteous Among the Nations was awarded to 2 thousand 691 citizens of Ukraine. Nowadays, thousands of warriors will be deprived of the unknown and the unknown. Also, until the memorable date, “Ukrposhta” together with the Odessa Center will investigate the Holocaust and support the Charitable Foundation “Memory. Gidnist. Svoboda issued a special stamp and envelope.

V.O. took part in the stamp cancellation ceremony and launch. Head of the Odessa Regional Administration Boris Voloshenkov, Head of the Odessa Center for Holocaust Research Pavlo Kozlenko, Officer of the Odessa Directorate of “Ukrposhti” Sergiy Drozd, Minister of the MZS Representative Office Ukraine in Odessa Sergiy Orlov, patron of the Head Rabbi of Odessa and the day of Ukraine, Rabbi Shneur Wiegler and others. Dodamo: in the rocks of Another World War, Shoa (Catastrophe of European Jewry), under the hour of the German-Romanian occupation, nearly 300 thousand died on the Ukrainian day Jews, including up to 120 thousand from Odessa. The exact number of people who were impoverished by the Nazis as part of the “residual increase in Jewish nutrition” is still unknown.