Israeli Director’s Wife Shaylee is narrating how she and her 4-week-old daughter fled their house during the attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel on October 7.
As part of its effort to gather accounts from assault survivors, Steven Spielberg formed the USC Shoah Foundation, with which Shaylee Atary Winner recently talked.
Israeli Director’s Wife Shaylee Survives Hamas Terrorist Attack:
Shaylee said that early in the morning, she and her husband—the director of The Boy—had quietly decided that she would take their daughter Shaya and flee while Yahav fended off an attempted entry by a Hamas terrorist into their safe room.
Israeli Director’s Wife Shaylee remembered shooting close as she ran with her kid in her arms through the streets of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. She hid behind some bushes and then went inside a garden shed, taking a hammer with her as a weapon.
“Shaylee, consider watching Holocaust movies,” I advised myself while we were standing in the garden shed. How would a mother act with her infant? since that’s how it felt,” she remarked. “I had the impression that they were genuinely pursuing Shaya and me, treating her like prey. We were experiencing something that could never have happened in my normal reality.
They were ultimately rescued more than a day later, according to Shaylee, and took sanctuary in a neighbor’s safe room. Her daughter, who was lethargic and severely dehydrated at the time, has since recovered. However, Shaylee found out later that Yahav had perished in the assault.
“It is with immense sorrow that Go2Films shares the devastating news that our beloved filmmaker, Yahav Winner, was found dead in Kfar Aza yesterday evening, after three days in which he was considered missing,” the Israeli sales and distribution company Go2Films previously said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. Our hearts are broken by Yahav’s passing, and we offer our sincere sympathies to Shaylee Atary, his wife, his family, friends, and everyone who was impacted by his creativity and energy.
Spielberg stated, “Both initiatives… seek to fulfill our promise to survivors: that their stories would be recorded and shared in the effort to preserve history and to work toward a world without antisemitism or hate of any kind.”
The USC Shoah Foundation is continuing its efforts to speak with survivors of the Israel-Hamas war as well as Holocaust survivors and witnesses. In these endeavors, we have to be together and unwavering.
“I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime,” the Oscar-winning director continued.
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