At the conclusion of the video below, you’ll see this:

It translates as follows:

Over the past year, we spoke with dozens of young people and asked to hear their stories as they are, without filters. Evacuees, survivors of the massacre, bereaved families, widows, reserve soldiers – the stories they told us are stories of friendship, courage, resilience, and of a generation that sees without illusions.

This project is our way of documenting what happened here over the past year and giving a moment to people who are the future of this country. We invite you to open your hearts and listen to them.

At the entrance to the “Local Testimony” Exhibit at Tel Aviv’s Land of Israel Museum which we posted about yesterday, there’s a huge QR code on the wall, inviting the visitor to watch a series of very brief documentary videos made about all the different groups listed above.

The QR code works even off a screen (we tested it), so I encourage you to take a look at the variety of truly fabulous brief films that have been uploaded.

There’s a brief introduction, in English too, as part of the entrance:

For who who don’t speak Hebrew, we’ve taken one of the very brief clips and added subtitles so a much wider audience can appreciate the hearts and souls of these young people. I found that it takes viewing it more than once to allow the magnitude of what they’re saying to really seep in.

This is a deeply scarred nation, as one of the participants actually points out, but also an extraordinary one. With the region still in turmoil, it’s worth hearing the voices of those who were most deeply and immediately affected, and to ask ourselves—what will this nation be like, given what its future leaders have all endured?

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"We survived the worst day since the Holocaust ... What will be here?"