THIRD SERIES

«ODESSA»

Ukrainians and Jews suffered incredible losses during the war years and have a lot in common. It is no coincidence that the hymns of the two peoples sound in minor. It is no coincidence that today they are once again united in the birth of a new civil society in Ukraine. The third series of our film was shot in the winter of 2013-2014 during the Revolution of Dignity, which prevented our heroines from visiting Odessa to meet the righteous of the world. It is Odessa that will be discussed in this series, a city where the Jewish population made up a significant part and gave the city its famous flavor. The Black Book was written here, the pages of which cannot be forgotten, and serve as a lesson for us, perhaps not learned today. Famous director Sergey Ursulyak tells about the occupation of Odessa, one of the most cruel, pierced by deadly cold, about the creation and destruction of the Odessa ghetto and about the miraculous rescue of his grandmother from it. Stories full of bitterness and hope are told by the director of the Odessa Holocaust Museum Pavel Kozlenko, veterans and eyewitnesses of those years Vasily Voloshin and Roman Shvartsman. And like a small miracle, one unique interview happened in this series...