In a November 2023 event at the Reagan Library’s “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away” exhibition, 95-year-old Holocaust survivor David Lenga spoke with Ariel Ein-Gal, an Israeli who had survived the October 7 Hamas attack just seven weeks earlier. Lenga spoke of his childhood in Poland, followed by the horrors of Nazi labor and concentration camps that he endured. Ein-Gal, who had been camping with friends in the early hours of October 7, described waking up on Zikim Beach to the sounds of explosions, gunfire, and bullets hitting the sand around them like in the movies. They fled for their lives, and a close friend did not survive the attack.