Simcha and Akiva: Olami students from Ukraine

[Music] i want you to understand what it means to lose everything have you ever lost a usb hard drive with pressures memories maybe videos or pictures it feels like part of your heart is lost these people have not only lost all their pictures but they lost the place where they grew up their houses their businesses their friends and neighbors we didn't think you know there would be a war never thought in my life but really nobody believed that it will be maybe something will be some type of the war on the east of ukraine but not like this i was in denial until the last minute i didn't even believe this could happen in in in 2022 how you can think that there is one person would want to come to another person's house and try to kill all of the people i build a great successful company kids family all my life it's was in kiev till 24 of february when like in one minute you wake up you need to make very quickly the decision what to do we know what happened many many times in germany in spain in ukraine when the war starts there is no humanism second world war so many jews needed to live their house their cities without nothing how many times we lost like i don't know like huge percent of our [Music] our community right like you don't you don't hold back you just you just have to run for me of course it was hard and the whole our life was there but there was no looking back when the war started we like immediately put my family to the car uh a few suitcases what we have with us and we just went to the border we crossed the border hour and a half before the government closed the border we was really very lucky in the evening they announced a curfew so i thought it's a good idea to to go after the curfew we went to village outside of kiev towards the west it's a jewish village we stayed there for night in the morning we went towards the west then we crossed the hungarian border and went to israel after that after a few weeks in israel we came to united states [Music] now after the war has broken out and so many so many people of ukraine are dispersed all over the world the jewish community stays united together they support each other i came from ukraine i have my close friend that he lived in monty so his brother lived here and he said okay this house for you his brother went to other place this was unbelievable yeah then akiva came from from ukraine we also bring them to this house we find the place how to put everybody in one house and brochure together helping each other give motivation to each other and hashem this is the story of olami it's a story that needs to be written and needs to be told robin hoover he also he was my teacher in school after he opened student center with a me great person who know how to find a way to heart of everyone the first job is spent by murdoch i became kind of mentor for me and then step by step became naturally i started observing i captured my kitchen then i started going to twilight and then i did a breath not not was not my first step thousands students go through this program and this helped them to be back to the her jewish roots dolan me was right there showing that there is a better life you can put a price on this it's not just lessons much more about family and community we need to remember the what really important things in our life it's not material things all what you have is your family it's very important to have some identification that we are jewish all jewish people in all the world is one family