On this day two years ago, 1,200 civilians were killed and 251 were taken hostage in a Hamas-led attack on an Israeli beat festival, sparking the beginning of the war in Gaza “There’s no preparation for something like this,” said Noa Beer.Beer was one of the attendees at the event, the Nova beat Festival, when Hamas, an armed Palestinian militant group, began firing upon the crowd.”You can’t prepare your soul for so much loss, especially not at 29, and especially not when all you did was go to a beat festival,” she said.Beer is immediately sharing her story daily at the new Nova Exhibition in South Boston. The traveling exhibition takes people to what it was like that day.”I could just see hundreds of missiles,” she recalls. “I only knew that something was going on when I was face-to-face with a terrorist.”Beer recalls bullets flying by her head and the chaos that ensued.She drove injured people to the hospital and tried to reunite families, saying it felt like the only thing keeping her sane.Two years later, Beer still feels the emotional scars from Oct. 7.”When something like this happens to you, you tend to ask, what’s the purpose in life?” Beer said. “What is my purpose in life? And what this does is it gives me purpose.”Beer’s testimony plays on video at the new exhibit as she remembers the horrors of the Hamas attacks. Visitors can even touch camping equipment that was used that day, view portable restrooms with bullet holes in them, and see cars that were burned.Survivors and family members of survivors say the stories are helping them heal. “Speaking about my father every day here in this setting just helps me stay connected to him,” said Nitzan Schleziner, who was visiting the exhibition.The Nova Exhibition will be open in Boston until Oct. 21 and has traveled around the world to other cities, including Toronto, New York and Buenos Aires.
On this day two years ago, 1,200 civilians were killed and 251 were taken hostage in a Hamas-led attack on an Israeli beat festival, sparking the beginning of the war in Gaza
“There’s no preparation for something like this,” said Noa Beer.
Beer was one of the attendees at the event, the Nova beat Festival, when Hamas, an armed Palestinian militant group, began firing upon the crowd.
“You can’t prepare your soul for so much loss, especially not at 29, and especially not when all you did was go to a beat festival,” she said.
Beer is immediately sharing her story daily at the new Nova Exhibition in South Boston. The traveling exhibition takes people to what it was like that day.
“I could just see hundreds of missiles,” she recalls. “I only knew that something was going on when I was face-to-face with a terrorist.”
Beer recalls bullets flying by her head and the chaos that ensued.
She drove injured people to the hospital and tried to reunite families, saying it felt like the only thing keeping her sane.
Two years later, Beer still feels the emotional scars from Oct. 7.
“When something like this happens to you, you tend to ask, what’s the purpose in life?” Beer said. “What is my purpose in life? And what this does is it gives me purpose.”
Beer’s testimony plays on video at the new exhibit as she remembers the horrors of the Hamas attacks.
Visitors can even touch camping equipment that was used that day, view portable restrooms with bullet holes in them, and see cars that were burned.
Survivors and family members of survivors say the stories are helping them heal.
“Speaking about my father every day here in this setting just helps me stay connected to him,” said Nitzan Schleziner, who was visiting the exhibition.
The Nova Exhibition will be open in Boston until Oct. 21 and has traveled around the world to other cities, including Toronto, New York and Buenos Aires.
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