We Will Dance Again - Memory Exhibit Europe Premiere

06:29 - "The Moment When the Music Stopped" - the memorial and memory exhibit of the Nova community, the international project, the largest and first of its kind Israeli physical-visual exhibit, dedicated to the victims of the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, at the Nova party - opened yesterday, October 7th, to the general public in Berlin, at a historically significant site, the former Tempelhof Airport, in the center of Berlin.

This is the European premiere of the exhibition and the ninth exhibit after a successful international tour, which started from Tel Aviv to New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Washington, and Boston - with more than 500,000 visitors to date.

The exhibit fully recreates the festival site and creates a powerful multi-sensory experience, bringing the visitor back to moments of horror. It includes original items and scenery brought from the field after the massacre - performance stages and sound equipment, refrigerators riddled with bullets, charred vehicles, shot-up bar stands, along with personal belongings of the revelers. Alongside them are innovative multimedia displays and first-person filmed testimonies of survivors and families of the murdered.

The exhibit's director created an extraordinary memory space that combines art, music, and creates a sense of unity and a place to mourn the lives that were cut short, to honor the resilience of the survivors, and to remind the international community of the need to stand together against terror and hatred.

The exhibition is supported by Kai Wegner, the Mayor of Berlin; Wolfram Weimer, the Minister of State in the Chancellery and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media; and Karin Prien, the Federal Minister for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

According to Ofir Amir, one of the founders of Nova, a Nova survivor, and grandson of Holocaust survivors: "Berlin has a deep historical significance for the Jewish people and for me personally. Berlin is my birthplace. Presenting the Nova exhibit here is a powerful and symbolic moment, a true closing of a circle. The exhibition, born out of pain, memory, resilience, and hope, carries an important message about the universal power of culture and the terror that struck the music festival. Sharing this message specifically here, on the second memorial day of the massacre, is a significant and necessary step. We are excited to invite everyone to be part of this historic moment."

Reut Feingold, creator and director of the exhibition: "In the Nova exhibit, we created a way to connect the audience through the musical journey and through the artistic connection and to create a sense of identity and unity with the Nova community. It is chilling to open the exhibit in an airport that was used by the Nazis and specifically in it to tell a dark moment in humanity and after it a moment of building. The journey from darkness and hell to light and memory. This is a living testimony to the resilience of our community and the universal need to remember and stand against terror. 'We will dance again' is a promise of human hope that we carry forward together."

The exhibit tells the story of the Nova Festival: Thousands of music lovers gathered for a celebration of life and peace in Re'im, as part of the Nova Festival. At 6:29 AM on Saturday, October 7, the festival was brutally cut short when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and in an attack on more than 4,000 unarmed revelers, 411 people were murdered, hundreds were injured, and 44 were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. Of the 48 hostages still held in Gaza today, 14 were kidnapped from the festival. Today there are 412 bereaved families belonging to the Nova community.

The Nova 06:29 exhibition was initiated by the founders of the Nova community - Omri Sassi, Ofir Amir, Yagil Rimoni, who joined forces with the chairman of the Association of Culture Producers, Yoni Feingold, and producer Ilan Factor. The exhibit was created and directed by Reut Feingold, director, screenwriter, and creator, who shaped the narrative and emotional structure of the moving journey experienced by viewers of the exhibit. The exhibit touches not only on the memory of the tragedy, but also on the spirit of coping, action, and resilience of the community that grew out of the massacre.

The proceeds from the sale of entrance tickets to the exhibit will be donated to the Nova Tribe Community Association and will be dedicated to continuing its activities for commemoration, rehabilitation and support for survivors, families of the murdered and families of the kidnapped, through psychological support and rehabilitation programs, economic and employment assistance, creating community spaces and memory and information initiatives in Israel and around the world. Over the past two years, the association has dedicated its activities to a variety of areas alongside the production of moving commemoration and information events, in order to preserve the memory of the murdered and empower the survivors. The year 2026 is dedicated to revival - a return to life with resilience, hope and shared connection.

Address: Tempelhof flughafen, Platz d. Luftbrücke 5, 12101 Berlin

Advance ticket sales for the Berlin exhibition are now open at www.novaexhibition.com