Kfar Aza. “When we first heard the sirens I thought that this was just another round of mortars and rockets. Will get into the safe room and ten minutes later will go out and I will have my morning coffee on the porch. In my wildest imagination, I could think of the carnage that Kfar Aza will suffer by Hamas terrorists. My husband ran to get his gun and in my mind, I thought: ‘Is he planning to shout down the rockets with it?’ In the first minutes of the attack, I couldn’t really comprehend what was really going on. We saw in the Closed-circuit television of our community that heavily armed terrorists were entering our village in pickup trucks. Later on, we started to get messages in our WhatsApp community group from people who were pleading for help as terrorists entered their homes. In the Kfar Aza massacre, a ...
Taken captive: Noa Argamani, 26, recorded in one of the first Hamas videos Kidnapped at the Supernova music festival, October 7 Noa Argamani is seen in one of the first Hamas videos released during the massacre of hundreds of partygoers at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, seated on the back of a motorcycle behind her Hamas captor, screaming, “Don’t kill me!” https://www.timesofisrael.com/taken-captive-noa-argamani-26-recorded-in-one-of-first-hamas-videos/#:~:text=Kidnapped%20at%20the%20Supernova%20music%20festival%2C%20October%207&text=Noa%20Argamani%20is%20seen%20in,Don’t%20kill%20me!%E2%80%9D
Farmer from Moshav Patish “Saturday morning, around 8:00 O’clock I drove to the entrance of my Moshav and saw two expansive bicycles that were left on the ground. I didn’t really understand why people left them unattended because they were one of those fancy bicycles that you wouldn’t just leave behind. I continued driving a little bit more and then I saw a truck with people inside who had been shot and then I realized that something unusual was going on. As I was driving I got a call from a good friend of mine who asked me to rescue the son of his friend who was at a rave party near Kibbutz Re’im. I realized it was not far from me so I turned right into the fields in order to go and pick him up. While I was driving to his location I saw in the distance a swarm of people running for their lives. it was like ...
Holocaust survivor, Survivor of the 7th of October massacre. (In the black-and-white picture you can see Haim and his mother Erin) “I never thought that as a Holocaust survivor, I would need to hide for my life again. “I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935 and was the only child of my family. When the violence and hatred mounted in Hungary against Jews we were forced to wear the notorious yellow badge and our house was marked with the Star of David as a means to mark us as Jews. It was done in order to isolate, dehumanize, terrorize, and isolate us from the entire society. I was shocked to see that eight decades after the Holocaust the Star of David symbol has been painted once again on Jewish homes all across Europe to target and frighten them amid the devastating October 7 massacer. It echoes the antisemitic persecution ...
Holocaust Survivor, Survivor of the 7th of October massacre “I was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1935 and I was the youngest of four children. My mother told me that I was born unlucky because of the timing of my birth – Just before World War II and the Holocaust. My father, who was born in Poland was forcibly exiled from Romania because he was not a Romanian citizen so my mother had to take care of our family all alone while the hatred and violence against Jews escalated in Romania. It took us a while, but we managed to reunite with my father after a family member who was a train conductor, spotted him on a train. We learned from him that my father who was a doctor was given a position by the Russians in a hospital in Odessa so we managed to track him down over there. ...
