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the current day. 
For example, Frankl 
describes an address to camp 
prisoners who were being 
punished with starvation: “[I 
told them] they must not lose 
hope but should keep their 
courage in the certainty that 
the hopelessness of our strug-
gle did not detract from its 
dignity and its meaning. I said 
that someone looks down on 
each of us in difficult hours 
— a friend, a 
wife, some-
body alive 
or dead, or a 
God — and 
he would not 
expect us to 
disappoint 
him.
” 
As health 
care workers 
faced the dif-
ficult hours 
of this pan-
demic, and as they face future 
challenges that may engender 
burnout or even despair, it is 
our duty to offer them whatev-
er support we can. The health 
care system cannot function 
without their hope.
Holocaust memoirs writ-
ten by physicians abound 
and, without exception, the 
authors recount how deeply 
they remained connected to 
the spirit of doctoring even 
under the most horrid of con-
ditions. In this way, even when 
deprived of their clinical spac-
es and the tools of their trades, 
they were able to give hope to 
people in the ghettos and in 
the concentration camps. Even 
amidst the often-insurmount-
able encroachment of evil and 
death, they fulfilled their pur-
pose to bring healing to their 
patients. Elie Wiesel wrote in 
the New England Journal of 

Medicine, “When I think about 
the Nazi doctors, the medical 
executioners, I lose hope. To 
find it again, I think about the 
authors, the victim-doctors.
”
We should not undervalue 
the health care heroes of today 
and their commitment to our 
health. They have remained 
true to their professional oaths 
in spite of everything. Our 
hero doctors have proven they 
will be there for us regardless 
of the obsta-
cles they face. 
They deserve 
not only to be 
remembered, 
but also to be 
honored with 
more than slo-
gan-support 
for what they 
have done 
and what they 
continue to 
do. 
They are exhibiting the 
highest standards of the 
teaching, “Who is honored, 
one who honors his fellows” 
(Pirke Avot, 4:1). Let us work 
to salute, in real and tangible 
ways, our health care heroes 
whose actions merit honor. 

Herbert A. Yoskowitz D. Div (hon.) 

is rabbi emeritus at Adat Shalom 

Synagogue and lecturer at 

the Oakland University William 

Beaumont School of Medicine. 

Jason Adam Wasserman, Ph.D., is an 

associate professor at the Oakland 

University William Beaumont School 

of Medicine. They are the co-au-

thors of “Resistance, Medicine 

and Moral Courage: Lessons on 

Bioethics from Jewish Physicians 

During the Holocaust.” Conatus: 

Journal of Philosophy, Volume 4(2); 

2019: 359-378.

PROF. DR. FRANZ VESELY, VIA WIKIPEDIA

Dr. Viktor 
Frankl

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