Screenshot of the Shoah Foundation online archive housing testimonies of those who survived the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
A young woman who watched her boyfriend die as she hid behind a dumpster; a former hostage who spent 55 days in captivity; a grandmother who lost two generations of her family. Stories like theirs have been shared around the world since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel of Oct. 7 but are now being preserved for posterity by a foundation originally created to document the horrors of the Holocaust.
Mourners embrace during the funeral of Meni and Ayelet Godard in Kibbutz Palmachim, Israel, on Oct. 29, 2023. The Israeli couple were killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 in Kibbutz Be'eri near the border with the Gaza Strip. As Israeli families impacted by the attacks fled the south to hotels and relatives' houses, the foundation mobilized resources to begin recording their experiences as quickly as possible. That's where Natalie Mann stepped in.
To date, she's heard the stories of 250 people over the course of the last four months. Some days, she listened to the stories of three or four different people. Mann said she spoke to one woman in her 60s whose two sons were murdered, one along with his wife and children. A young woman in her 20s described how her boyfriend was killed by Hamas fighters outside a dumpster at the Nova Music Festival site after he hid her behind the structure to keep her safe.
"I'm privileged to be able to be strong and to be able to do this and to be able to be a part of this phenomenal time in history, to be here now."of the victims of Oct. 7 will form part of 10,000 new testimonies from around the world that the foundation aims to collect. They will also be available to schools and universities and are accessible in Israel through the National Library.
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