One year ago, 11 worshippers were killed in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. The Tree of Life synagogue isn't the first house of worship to endure a massacre. But these sacred spaces share a common conviction: we will not be moved.
“That night we were all home together as a family, and it was just not believing what had happened,” said Debbie Gillette, who has been an employee and a member of the church for more than three decades. Her then-teenage daughter, Rebecca, was in the sanctuary during the shooting. “It's just like, how can this happen in a church?”
After the bullet holes in the walls were fixed and the blood-stained carpet was replaced, congregants returned to the sanctuary for worship the next Sunday, just five days after the shooting.By contrast, a chain link fence has blocked off the entrance to the Tree of Life synagogue for nearly a year now, ever since 11 worshippers were killed in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Schachner said others have pushed for a return to the existing synagogue. “Some people that have been members for 80 years, they would not want much of the synagogue space to change.” Some families of the murdered children never returned to the church. But nearly 60 years after that racist attack, congregants don’t think of the space as a place of violence and trauma, but rather one of renewal and reconciliation, said Price.
“I think it's a default thing for us,” Feige said. “It's not something we're going to plan, but I think the rest of the world will make us this historic site.” “Can we have meals together? Can we socialize together? Can we study together?” said Feige, who joined Tree of Life in July of this year. “That process obviously got stopped once the shooting occurred.”
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