A light kept burning for those who were taken: in the camps, in the fields, in the streets and at the festival. Their memory is a charge upon the living.
Tap to light a candle in their memory
One third of the Jewish people, murdered in the heart of modern Europe. Whole worlds (families, villages, languages and libraries) extinguished. We light six flames, one for each million.
Tap a candle to light it.
The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Shoah. Communities of the Gaza envelope, and the young people dancing at the Nova festival, were attacked at dawn.
At 6:29 on the morning of Saturday, 7 October 2023 — Simchat Torah, a day of joy — some 3,000 Hamas terrorists tore through the Gaza border fence by land, sea and air. Over the hours that followed they overran more than twenty communities of the Gaza envelope and the Nova music festival, murdering families in their homes and young people as they ran.
About 1,200 people were murdered, the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The dead included the elderly, children, babies, and survivors of the Shoah. 251 were dragged into Gaza as hostages, from infants to the very old. Bringing them home, the living and the bodies of the murdered, remains an open wound.
A partial remembrance of attacks on Jewish lives, in Israel and around the world.
A partial remembrance. The full toll of these years could never fit on a single page.
May their memory be a blessing.