USC Shoah Foundation to Collect Testimony from Survivors, Witnesses of Hamas Terror Attack
First-hand testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the October 7 assault on Israel by Hamas terrorists will likely be collected by the USC Shoah Foundation.
The transfer confirms the assault that noticed the mass rape, torture, and slaughter of Israeli civilians is being thought-about half of Holocaust lineage of occasions.
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, previously Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit group devoted to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and different genocides.
The Times of Israel reports the muse, based by Steven Spielberg, at the moment holds 56,000 testimonies from 65 international locations the place genocidal assaults have taken place.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Horror of the Hamas Terror Attack on Civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel
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Over 1,400 folks, most of them civilians, have been killed and greater than 224 folks have been kidnapped and brought to Gaza within the brutal Hamas onslaught with tales nonetheless rising of the horrific crime towards humanity that came about, as Breitbart News reported.
Teams working for the muse have reportedly already recorded the primary testimonies in Israel.
One launched hostage, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, stated Tuesday she “went through hell” throughout her abduction by rampaging Hamas terrorists, being moved although a “spiderweb” of muddy tunnels earlier than beginning greater than two weeks as a captive in Gaza.
Lifshitz was a resident of Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities close to the Gaza Strip which Hamas militants invaded on October 7.
Yocheved Lifshitz speaks to the media outdoors Ichilov Hospital after she was launched by Hamas final evening, on October 24, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Some 180 of the kibbutz’s 400 residents have been killed or kidnapped within the terror raid.
Lifshitz is one of solely 4 hostages to be launched — and the primary to communicate publicly — of the greater than 220 Israeli and international nationals believed held by Hamas.
“I went through hell, I didn’t think or know I’d get to this situation. They went on a rampage in our kibbutz, kidnapped me, lay me over a motorcycle… and sped off with me through the ploughed fields,” she stated a day after her launch.
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