“Moment” will be on display for one week only, from October 6th to October 13th, in Weitzman’s 5th floor ballroom. Public viewing is free. Two original cars, charred in the attack, will be placed on the sidewalk outside the museum.
“While this history is still in progress, it is clear that life for American Jews changed that day,” Weizmann CEO Misha Galperin said in a statement. “We must share these stories as spaces for truth and learning.”
Even before the exhibit was put on display, the material was already being used as an unofficial monument. The portable toilets are covered with stickers commemorating those who died that day.
Weizmann officials said the exhibition does not address Israel’s response to the attack on Gaza, but rather only commemorates the events of October 7. When the exhibition was held in New York City, it attracted pro-Palestinian demonstrators, resulting in one arrest.
The exhibition at the Weizmann Museum includes programs such as a screening of “We Will Dance Again,” a film compiled from cellphone footage taken by festival attendees and eyewitness interviews with survivors. , will be held on Sunday, October 6th. An evening vigil will also be held on Sunday to commemorate October 7th and the anniversary of those still held hostages.
The small pop-up at Weizmann will coincide with the full-scale exhibition in Los Angeles and will not borrow any of the items from the Los Angeles exhibit. The producers of the Nova Music Festival have a warehouse full of surplus artifacts that can host multiple exhibitions at once.
After a previous act of anti-Semitic violence (the 2018 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue), Weitzman acquired the coffee cup and folding chair that played a key role in that incident. did. August could not say whether Weitzman plans to acquire the objects from the Nova Festival for its permanent collection.
“It would be difficult to imagine a future core exhibit at this museum that does not include the events of October 7th, because of how profoundly and irrevocably Jewish life was changed that day. ” she said. “This is still very new history, and the American Jewish community and the global Jewish community are still processing the events of October 7th, but bringing it here will begin to tell that story and It’s a way to help heal.”
