“Israeli Friends of Ukraine” in Ilya Axelrod’s project “Bridges of Hope”: how volunteers connected the country after October 7. Chronicle of the human spirit
The documentary series Ilya Axelrod “Bridges of Hope”, created for Channel 9, was initially constructed as a journey through the nervous system of the country. Nine episodes. Nine attempts to understand what holds together a society that has experienced the greatest blow in its history. Not staff maps.Not briefings. People who suddenly began to do […]
Jews from Ukraine: Leo Motzkin. From Ukrainian Brovary to Kiryat Motzkin, named in his honor
And today in our section “Jews from Ukraine,” we will talk about Leo Motzkin — an outstanding public figure from Brovary, whose name is associated with the history of Israel and Ukrainian Jews. Leo Motzkin (Aryeh Leib) was born in 1867 in Brovary, Kyiv province of the Russian Empire. In this small town, near Kyiv, […]
Holocaust survivors from Ukraine – how are they enduring the fourth year of war? – video by Dan Goldman
“… my girlfriend, at one time, repatriated from Ukraine alone. Her entire family remained there, in Ukraine, including grandparents who survived the Holocaust. She grew up in the Jewish community, and the question of living in Israel was always a matter of time for her. One day after another conversation with her relatives, she told […]