Euroasian Jewish News

Memorial Days of the Kishinev Pogrom in 1903 / Support by the EAJC. Moldova, Kishinev, April 6-9, 2003.

On April 6-9, 2003 in the capital of the Republic of Moldova there were Days of Memory of the Kishinev Pogrom in 1903.

One of the sponsors of the program was the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC). Involved in the organization of the events were among others the EAJC's Association of the Jewish Organizations and Communities of the Republic Moldova (AJOCM) and the Institute of Interethnic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova.
The program of memorial occasions included I. Sobol's drama "Ghetto" at the M. Eminesku National Theatre, a meeting-requiem at the Sculeanu Park, and formal opening of the memorial devoted to the 100th-anniversary of the pogrom, the International Scientific Conference "Pogrom of 1903: a Look Through One Century" and the Round Table attended by official visitors.
The central event of the actions became a meeting-requiem, which was opened by President of the Republic of Moldova Vladimir Voronin. At the meeting there were speeches by the AJOCМ President, member of the EAJC General Council Semen Shoykhet, Chairman of the General Council of the EAJC, President of the Vaad of the Ukraine Joseph Zisels, and also Valery Engel, the Executive Director of the World Congress of the Russian-Jewry (WCRJ), which also filed support to the organization of the events.

The people of Kishinev especially welcomed their fellow countryman, Minister of the Israely Government Avigdor Liberman, Ambassador of the State of Israel in the Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova Anna Azari, representatives of two international Jewish organizations: Joint's Executive Director Asher Ostrin, and Sohnut's Head of the Department for Eastern Europe, the CIS and Baltics Amos Lahat who also spoke to the meeting.
Participants of the memorial actions made excursions around the Jewish places of Kishinev, heard a concert of chamber and symphonic music, attended the presentation of "Dor le dor" foundation.

the EAJC Public Relations and Media Department