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Source: https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/opinion/new-documentary-reveals-horror-hope-from-the-kids-of-oct-7/
Documentary: "The Children of October 7"
(New York Post) Montana Tucker - After the evil of Oct. 7, I couldn't just keep dancing and singing. I went to Israel to see everything for myself. I sat down with seven young survivors of the massacre - children who lived through horrors that no child should ever face - and I listened. I promised them the world would hear their stories and made this documentary of children's testimonies. I spoke to then-12-year-old Yael Idan, whose home was targeted by Hamas on Oct. 7. She and her family hid in their safe room - but the terrorists shot through the door. Their bullets hit Maayan, Yael's sister, and Yael saw her die. Her father, Tsahi, was abducted to Gaza and murdered there. Eitan Yahalomi, 13, was kidnapped with his family on Oct. 7. His mother and sister managed to escape, but his father, Ohad, was taken hostage and then killed by Hamas. Eitan was taken alone into Gaza, where he was held in isolation for most of his 52 days in captivity. Yael, Eitan and the others who speak in the film didn't ask for any of this horror. They want to play with their friends, go to school, live their lives. Now they wake up with nightmares. Some can't sleep at all. They lost their families. They lost their childhood. I made this film to give the children of Oct. 7 a voice - and to show the world the truth of what they lived through. I grew up hearing stories of the Holocaust from my grandparents. My grandmother was only 13, Eitan's age, when she was taken to Auschwitz. She watched as her own mother was beaten nearly to death before being dragged to the gas chambers. My grandmother lived. Her family did not. On Oct. 7, Jewish families were once again hunted. Babies were murdered. Women were raped. Children were taken hostage. And now, people are questioning whether it even happened. The writer, 32, is an American dancer, singer, and social media activist whose documentary "The Children of October 7" is streaming on Paramount+ with MTV Documentary Films.