Odessa is preparing to award the title of Honorary Citizen to Roman Shvartsman, a Holocaust witness and head of the Association of Jewish Prisoners of Ghettoes and Concentration Camps

Roman Markovich Shvartsman, born on November 7, 1936, in Bershad, Vinnytsia region, at the age of five, ended up in the Bershad ghetto, where he spent 3.5 years in inhumane conditions. This experience left an indelible mark on his fate and became the foundation of his struggle for truth and memory.

According to Odessa portal “Dumskaya”, the city council plans to confer this title on him in the near future.

Roman Shvartsman himself confirmed this information to a "Dumskaya" correspondent and shared his emotions.
“For me, it is a great honor and deep excitement to be presented for the title of Honorary Citizen of Odessa,” Shvartsman noted.
He added that this is the highest award from the city where he has lived his entire life after the war, and which has become for him a “source of revival and strength.”
“This is recognition not only of my work but of everyone whose memory I try to preserve. All those who passed through ghettos and concentration camps. All who gave their lives fighting Nazism. All who today fight for Ukraine’s independence… The title of ‘Honorary Citizen of Odessa’ is not just for me. It is for everyone who survived, who remembers, who passes the truth on. It is for Odessa, which has always been a multicultural, free, and strong-spirited city. I am grateful to everyone who supports this initiative. For me, this is not the end, but a new obligation: to work even harder, speak even louder, and remember even deeper,” said Roman Shvartsman.
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Taken on: January 29, 2025

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