Steven Spielberg breaks his silence on Hamas’ brutal Oct 7 attack against Israel saying: ‘I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime’

Film legend Steven Spielberg quietly broke his silence on Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel, saying: “I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime.”

The Oscar winner announced that the Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994, will begin archiving testimonies from survivors of the attacks in a project called “Countering Anti-Semitism through Testimony.”

Spielberg said it was an attempt to “ensure that the voices of survivors become a powerful tool in countering the dangerous rise of anti-Semitism and hatred.”

Since 1994, the foundation has collected the stories of Holocaust survivors from around the world. “Holocaust survivors are the bravest and bravest among us, and their stories are an enduring testament to the resilience of the human spirit,” he said.

“Both initiatives—recording interviews with survivors of the October 7 attacks and the ongoing collection of Holocaust testimonies—are aimed at fulfilling our promise to survivors that their stories will be recorded and shared in efforts to preserve history and build a world free of anti-Semitism or hatred of any kind. “Spielberg added.

Steven Spielberg pictured after a screening of Maestro in Los Angeles last week, the director issued a statement regarding the Hamas attack in November.

Israeli civilians, including Vlad Patapov in red, flee the Nova music festival after it was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

Hamas has vowed to carry out “additional terrorist attacks” against Israeli civilians, with the terror group warning that “what is coming gets worse and worse” in the form of a frightening new threat. Pictured: a Hamas terrorist during the October 7 attack.

The photo shows bullet-riddled buildings damaged during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel.

“We must remain united and steadfast in these efforts. In November it was reported that the Shoah Foundation would implement a project related to October 7th.

In addition to the Holocaust, the foundation also documented similar atrocities in Rwanda and Cambodia.

Also in November, David Schecter of the US Holocaust Survivors’ Fund wrote an open letter to Spielberg asking why the director had failed to take a “strong stand against terrorism, against Hamas and the millions of people who celebrate the shedding of Jewish blood.”

“Wasn’t the purpose of recording 50,000 testimonies of our fellow survivors to ensure that the world could never deny and should never forget the Nazis’ systematic murder of six million Jews, including one and a half million children?” ‘

“Having personally witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, we never thought we would ever see atrocities like those committed on October 7 again,” he continued.

Schecter himself was only 11 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was starved and tortured for three years. He survived, but his family died in horror.

‘Mister. Spielberg’s Schindler’s List was about one man who had the moral courage to risk his life to save others. We are not asking you to risk your life. We ask you to use your voice,” he wrote in conclusion.

Spielberg did not publicly respond to the letter.

During interview with Stephen Colbert In March, Spielberg said that in today’s US, anti-Semitism “is no longer hidden, but stands proud with its hands on its hips, like Hitler and Mussolini – sort of daring us to challenge it.” I have never experienced this in my entire life. Especially in this country.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in the first two weeks after the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

Spielberg pictured with his sister Nancy in November. According to a post on her Instagram page, she was in Israel on the day of the attack.

According to a post on her Instagram page, Spielberg’s sister, Nancy, was in Israel on the day of the attack. Nancy returned to the United States on October 16.

Since then, she has posted almost daily about the attacks on social media. Her most recent post saw her criticize Oscar winner Angelina Jolie for her failure to speak out against the sexual violence suffered by Jewish women that day.

Last month, the Anti-Defamation League reported that nearly three in four Jewish college students in the United States who responded to a survey said they had experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism in the current academic year.

The revelation comes amid growing tensions on some US college campuses over the war between Israel and Hamas and growing protests in support of Israel or the Palestinians.

About 73 percent of more than 500 Jewish college students surveyed said they had experienced anti-Semitism since the start of the 2023-2024 school year, said the ADL, which fights anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination.

The survey also found that the percentage of Jewish students who said they felt comfortable around others on campus knowing they were Jewish dropped to 38.6 percent as of Oct. 7 from 63.7 percent before that date.