Survived the Holocaust, killed by Hamas

(JNS) - The messages kept coming in to Kibbutz Holit's emergency WhatsApp group.

"Save us, save us," "Where is the army?" "They are trying to burn down the houses" and "There's gunfire."

A 7-year-old girl reported that she was hiding in a closet; a 15-year-old reported that his parents were killed and that he was shot in the stomach; a woman reported that she was suffocating from the smoke in the safe room of her burning house.

And a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor huddled in the safe room of his home with his Moldovan caretaker.

The national nightmare

It was the nightmarish morning of Oct. 7 i...