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More than 200 people kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7th are still being held hostage by the group. Yarden Roman is one of them. Her brother, Gili Roman, has been in Washington to seek support from senators and representatives.    #Israel #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar #HamasWar #IsraeliAuthorities #IsraeliHostages #GazaHostage #HostageCrisis                    ~HT.97~PR.152~ED.102~

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00:00 Gili Roman has been at the Holocaust Memorial Museum before.

00:05 This time the German-Israeli didn't come to Washington to learn about the past, but to

00:10 fight for the future of his sister, Yarden Roman.

00:14 On Saturday morning, we all got into the shelters.

00:17 I got to the shelter in Tel Aviv, she got to the shelter in Berri next to Gaza.

00:21 So I asked which teddy bear got into the shelter, which teddy bear was left out, and she was

00:26 kind of frustrated that the favorite teddy bears were kind of neglected outside and Geffen,

00:34 my niece, might be upset with her and I said leave it, she will meet the teddy bears, she

00:38 will be okay.

00:40 Yarden hid with her husband Alon and Geffen.

00:43 But it wasn't going to be okay.

00:45 The shelter wasn't a safe place.

00:47 They were taken, the three of them, inside a vehicle with four armed terrorists towards

00:54 Gaza and at a certain point next to the border they decided to escape.

00:58 They ran outside, jumped out of the moving car.

01:03 Yarden was holding Geffen in her hands and they were starting running towards the forest,

01:07 like a small forest, trying to find shelter.

01:09 The terrorists noticed them, started to run after them, shooting at them, trying to either

01:13 kill them or capture them again.

01:16 Then Yarden understood that she cannot run fast enough, so she just gave the most pressure

01:22 thing in her life to the hands of her husband Alon and he managed to run away really fast

01:26 and find a hiding spot where he was hiding with Geffen until dark, dark time, more than

01:33 12 hours with no food, no water, nothing.

01:37 Then they started to slowly get into the kibbutz.

01:41 Jewish groups here in the US are financing Gili Roman's trip to Washington so he can

01:47 meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

01:49 It's crucial for us to convey the message that time is running out and we have to be

01:55 vocal and we have to act and we need them to stand with us to express this message on

02:01 the Senate floor to ensure that people do not forget that there are still over 200 people

02:07 alive that can still be saved today, tomorrow.

02:11 If I could speak with Yarden right now and to deliver a message to her, it's clear that

02:15 the first thing that I would tell her is that Geffen, her daughter, is alive and the brave

02:19 act that she has done to run away and to give Geffen to her husband Alon was worthwhile

02:26 and Geffen is safe and happy and secure with us.

02:30 Back at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gili Roman lays out the connections between then

02:37 and now.

02:38 My family's story comes from what we are seeing here from the Holocaust, that my grandmother,

02:46 my German grandmother managed to run away just the day after Kristallnacht.

02:52 All of her family except from her brother has died there and she taught us how important

02:59 it is to have a state and to have a secure homeland for ourselves.

03:05 Unfortunately it's not completely secure.

03:07 If my sister had to run away also from people trying to kill her just because she's Jewish

03:12 and trying to shoot at her and her innocent child.

03:17 But it's crucial for us to keep this security and to have also Germany by our side and with

03:24 us.

03:25 So we have to have a safe space in this world.

03:37 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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