Finding meaning in dark times: A Viktor Frankl exhibition in Tel Aviv
A 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 Shalom Tower Library.
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