In Hamas’ horrific killings, Israeli trauma over the Holocaust resurfaces

Published October 14, 2023 9:04 PM

By TIA GOLDENBERG
Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust. Long seen as a catastrophe so horrific nothing else should be compared to it, Israelis are now drawing direct parallels between the murder of 6 million Jews in Europe eight decades ago and their country’s most recent tragedy, underscoring how traumatic the attack has been for a country that rose from the ashes of World War II and was created as a safe haven for Jews.

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