In Odessa, the day began as a sign of solidarity with Israel and recognition of the war with the anthem to Israel, Hatikva. A lot of huge Jewish organizations, including Hillel Odessa, Hesed Shaare Zion, Beit Grand, JCC, Migdal, the Jewish Museum of Odessa and the Odessa Center for Holocaust Research, gathered together to learn about Various aspects of Jewish values, history, culture and tradition. At the warehouse of speakers on the Day of Jewish Knowledge, the head of the board of the Odessa Holocaust Research Center, Pavlo Kozlenko, also took the fate. He went to the Hillel base with a lecture “Values that allow us to deprive people of non-human minds.” The values of the psychiatrist and psychologist Viktor Frankl, the teacher and doctor Janusz Korczak, the thinker and philosopher Rabbi Halberstam, the psychologist Edit Yevi Elefant, and the priest Maximilian Kolbe were examined. All these people, who were in concentration camps, managed to preserve the greatest human values. “The first to lament were those who believed that everything would soon be over. After them are those who did not believe in those who are about to end. They saw those who focused on their actions, without awareness, which may or may not be the case. If we live in a state where everything will end: we are always grasping for the future reality - and therefore it is psychologically important to live in this reality. And those who procrastinate here and now survive,” wrote Viktor Frankl. Unfortunately, it’s relevant today...
