Events dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the pogrom against the Jews of Chisinau will be held on April 20 and 21.
In Botanica sector, a Tel Aviv-themed underground passage will be inaugurated and a concert devoted to the drama of the Chisinau Jews will be held.
On April 20, the City Museum of History will host a thematic exhibition. On the same day, the documentary concert "Requiem" will be presented at the Palace of the Republic.
On April 21, in the Alunelul Park, a commemorative event will take place. Also on Friday, a commemorative plaque will be unveiled on the building of the Russian Dramatic Theater "A. P. Chekhov", which once accommodated the Choral Synagogue.
On the web platform visit.chisinau.md the “Pogrom Path” tourist route and the “Jewish Tourist Route” will be placed.
The anti-Jewish pogrom took place in Chisinau on April 6-8, 1903 (or April 19-21, per the Julian calendar). At that time, 110 thousand people lived in the capital of Bessarabia, a governorate of the Russian Empire, of whom 50 thousand were Jews.
