Israeli hostages report in Vienna – Diepresse.com
For the first time in a Jewish school in Vienna, Adi Shoham publicly tells about the horror of the hostage in Gaza how her life has changed since her husband’s release – and how the fate of the fellow does not let him go.
When the break bell shrills, none of the pupils of the seventh grade of the Zwi-Perez Chajes School in Vienna feel like noise and storm out of the room. Everyone sits banned and listen to what the guests from Israel in Hebrew have to tell about the country in the state of war and the atrocities of the hostile to the Gaza Strip. They ask their psychology professor after the second ringing-the end of the break-that they continue, even if the eyewitness reports rag into the history lesson. « We love you, » they say to the teacher under laughter when she nods.
The 16- and 17-year-olds of the high school of the Israelite cultural community in the second district, near the Prater, experience applied psychology and contemporary history on Friday noon. « May I ask how it was for you on October 7th? » Not only in Israel is the date as a cipher for terror – like 9/11 in the USA. Adi describes how Hamas-Terrorists wanted to snatch the children, kidnapped her husband, she, her mother Shoshan, Naveh and Yahel -her then eight -year -old son and her four -year -old daughter -kidnapped to Gaza and killed her father Avshalom. As a psychologist, she is trained to deal with trauma. But the horror of that « black Sabbaths » exceeded every imagination.
