An exhibit honoring the victims and survivors of the Nova Music Festival called “6:29 AM The Moment Music Stood Still,” opened in New York City last week, displaying bullet ridden bathroom stalls, burned cars, and harrowing testimonials from those on the ground October 7.
Hamas terrorists killed 370 people at the concert dedicated to peace and love and kidnapped 44. (In total, 1,200 were killed in Israel that day and some 240 people were taken hostage.)
Scooter Braun, who helped bring the exhibit that first showed in Tel Aviv to the United States, gave a speech at an opening party where Mayor Eric Adams also spoke.
Braun’s hope is to “educate” people, saying, “This is not a political issue. It’s not an issue of race or religion, it’s a music festival. This is Coachella, this is Stagecoach, this is Governors Ball. This is any festival you, your kids or you, or your brother or sister have attended.”
He asked that “People to see themselves in this moment.”
Survivors from the massacre have also been on hand.
“It was my first trance festival ever,” survivor Tomer Meir, 21, told . “At 6:29 AM the music stops. From a moment of everybody dancing and laughing, it turned into a horror movie. A lot of rockets, terrorists coming after us who wanted to kill everybody.”
Tomer told us he was near a road where his car was parked, but that his vehicle was hit by a rocket and they had to flee.
“We were hiding in a tunnel,” behind the road, he explained. “After we left the tunnel and returned to the road we met a lot of cops who didn’t know what to do, and in that moment a lot of cars came with AK47’s and started shooting everyone.”
A clearly emotional Tomer told us, “I ran away,” until they found a ride.
He was lucky. “We came as 14 friends, we returned as 14 friends,” he said.
He is now trying to recover from the traumatic experience.
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