Nobody can live in Auschwitz

On October 6 last year, the kibbutz of Beeri marked its 77th anniversary, and dozens of former residents came back to the "shady, flower-filled oasis of tidy frame houses" to celebrate the commune's success.

Then came October 7, when the "men in black" murdered 132 people and dragged 30 others to captivity, making Beeri "one of the deadliest places on Israel’s deadliest day," writes Steve Hendrix in the Washington Post today.

With the same sort of courage that built the kibbutz in 1947, during civil war and before the British left Jews and Arabs to fight it out, some of Beeri's residents have now returned to their homes. One of their goals is to lessen the number of shrines that people have set up to honor the dead and kidnapped. “We need to have a memorial, absolutely,” one woman says. “But not on every street. Nobody can live in Auschwitz.”