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A Visit to the Jewish Museum in Odessa

In February, 2008, Alice Gutenkauf visited Odessa. She took these photos, including the Jewish Museum there. Click on any photo to see a larger view. See notes to the photos below.


View toward city from the top of the Potemkin Steps above the waterfront. The statue is of Richelieu	The Potemkin Steps	The Jewish Musum	Opera House, side entrance


Looking down the street from the Opera House.	Opera House, front view	Shopping Mall	Park to the Monument to the Fallen of WWII


Monument to the Fallen of WWII	Harbor, looking out to city on the other side	Entrance to the Jewish Museum	Wall of the Jewish Museum


View of the courtyard

Notes to the photos: We were taken to see the Museum and Opera House, but we were not taken inside. The buildings look very good in that part of the city. As for the Steps, there is a funicular that takes you to the top so that you don't have to climb the steps. The entrance to the Jewish Museum is in a courtyard behind a large building on the side street. The courtyard is falling apart. People there are working on cars, laundry hands from a window, a child played atop an abandoned well. The Wall of the Museum was the only intact-looking wall in the courtyard. Note the Jewish ironwork in the windows.