Thu, Apr 10
|Holocaust Museum LA
Saving Abigail: Discussion with Liz Hirsh Naftali
Author Liz Hirsh Naftali discusses her book about her efforts to rescue her three-year-old great niece from Hamas captivity in 2023.
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Holocaust Museum LA, 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
About
Saving Abigail: The True Story of the Abduction and Rescue of a Three-Year-Old Hostage is about a little girl taken hostage by Hamas the morning of October 7, 2023, after thousands of terrorists breached Israel by land, sea, and air. That day, as a part of their invasion, Hamas dragged 246 innocent people across the border into Gaza against their will. Among them was three-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, whose mother and father were murdered in front of their children.
With no prior experience or road map for how to save a hostage from captivity, Abigail’s great aunt Liz Hirsh Naftali undertook an international effort to share her niece’s face and story—with the US government, bipartisan congressional leaders, and world leaders—finding unlikely allies and supporters along the way. Though not a diplomat, politician, or military expert, Liz was determined to extricate this child from an ongoing geopolitical nightmare and free her from the Hamas terrorists who held her.
Author Liz Hirsh Naftali will speak about her book, her great-niece Abigail, and address the impact of October 7th on world Jewry and the rise in global antisemitism.
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