A wall with portraits of victims at the Nova Music Festival exhibition at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: EPA
One-third of the 1,200 people killed two years ago in the Hamas-led attack on Israel lost their lives in and around the Nova music festival in the Negev desert.
The touring exhibition opened on Tuesday amid high security in a history-filled location: Berlin’s decommissioned Nazi-era Tempelhof Airport.
An introductory film shows dancing, smiling revellers and the festival’s middle-class hippy vibe just after sunrise on October 7th, 2023, 5km from the border with Gaza.
“When you looked in their eyes,” one survivor recalls, “then you could see how much fun they are having, how they are celebrating life.”
Then at 6:29am, the film shows the DJ being ordered to turn off the music, shouting: “Red alert, rockets!”
The film ends and exhib
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