Menorah Memorial (Mariupol)
The Menorah memorial, in Mariupol, Ukraine is a cultural property of a historical place indexed in the Ukrainian heritage register (Special Awards: Єврейська спадщина) under the reference 99-142-3901.Лев Давыдович Яруцкий (english: Lev Yarutsky): «Евреи Приазовья» (Jews of the Sea of Azov), Маriupol 1996 It is located on the east side of the city of Mariupol Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian i .... The memorial is located on the place where more than 8,000 Mariupol Jews were shot on October 20 and 21, 1941. By 1939, 10,444 Jews lived in Mariupol. There is a menorah in the center of the memorial. On the pedestal is a Star of David. On both sides of the monument there are memorial steles with inscriptions: “Victims ...
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Mariupol
Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the country and the second-largest city in Donetsk Oblast, with an estimated population of 425,681 people in January 2022. However, Mariupol has been militarily controlled by Russia since May 2022, and the city's residents are now estimated to number around 100,000, according to Ukrainian authorities. Historically, the city of Mariupol was a centre for trade and manufacturing, and played a key role in the development of higher education and many businesses while also serving as a coastal resort on the Black Sea. From 1948 to 1989, the city was known as Zhdanov, named after Andrei Zhdanov, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the name was part of a larger ef ...
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