Finding meaning in dark times: A Viktor Frankl exhibition in Tel AvivA Tel Aviv exhibition brings Viktor Frankl’s ideas to life, exploring how meaning can be found even in times of crisis and suffering.On a visit to Vienna almost exactly a year ago, Janet Belleli Goodvach found herself transfixed by displays in a small museum, experiencing what felt like an enormously powerful – and sorely needed – therapy session. Like her fellow Israelis, Goodvach was carrying the burden of the then-ongoing Israel-Hamas War, with the pain of many funerals and soldier injuries, hostages still being held, families displaced, a son in the army, and a hurting nation. In Vienna, she also carried the scar of the murder by the Nazis of her Viennese great-grandparents. But what she saw at the Viktor Frankl Museum – housed in Frankl’s apartment in Vienna, where he had lived from his return after the war in 1945 until his death at age 92 in 1997 – gave her strength and hope through Frankl’s approach to suffering and challenges. A cornerstone were Frankl’s words writ large in the museum, which kept spooling through her mind: “The one thing you cannot take away from me is my freedom to choose how I will respond to what you do to me.” Goodvach persisted in turning her vision into reality, and her passion
project of the past year has culminated in L’Chaim, an exhibition of
Viktor Frankl’s ideas, which runs until the end of May in Tel Aviv’s
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