Remembering the Nova Massacre: Exhibition opens in Tempelhof!

Remembering the Nova Massacre: Exhibition opens in Tempelhof!

An impressive exhibition commemorating the Hamas massacre during the Nova music festival opened in Berlin on October 6, 2025. The exhibition is entitled “October 7, 06:29 AM – The Moment Music Stood Still” and takes place in the former Tempelhof Airport. This marks the second anniversary of the attack, which took place in 2023 and plunged about 3,000 local music fans into a nightmare.

Behind the scenes of the exhibition are the festival's producers, who founded the Tribe of Nova Foundation after the massacre. The exhibition impressively reconstructs the festival site with original exhibits, including a tent, camping chairs and even burned-out cars. Visitors can also view many personal items such as shoes, backpacks and clothing left behind by festival goers. In addition, cell phone recordings and interviews with eyewitnesses provide a particularly powerful insight into the tragic events of that night. The exhibition is open until November 16, 2025 and promises to keep the memories of these terrible events alive, reports tagesschau.de.

The attack and the reactions

On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants attacked several locations in Israel. The attack had devastating consequences: around 1,200 people lost their lives, including visitors to the Nova festival, of whom 411 were killed in the attack and more than 40 were kidnapped as hostages in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu responded with airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, marking the beginning of a bloody conflict focused on freeing hostages and dismantling Hamas. According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, more than 66,000 Palestinians have died since the fighting began - a figure that cannot be independently verified. This has led to international criticism of Israel's actions, as t-online.de highlights.

The ongoing conflicts and the number of victims are also leading to increasingly loud voices in Europe calling for structural changes in Middle East policy. Wolfgang Ischinger, head of the Munich Security Conference, recently criticized the fact that the EU has been disintegrating as a unit since October 7, 2023 and called for a more unified approach in order to gain more influence on events in the Middle East. He questions why hostages have not yet been released and emphasizes that pressure should also be exerted on Hamas to find a solution to the hostage issue, according to zdf.de.

Demonstrations and outlook

To commemorate the terrible events, demonstrations have also been announced in Berlin-Mitte for the coming weekend, with the focus on solidarity with the victims and the Palestinian civilian population. These opportunities provide people with space not only to grieve, but also to discuss peace and the need to learn from the past.

The opening of the exhibition in the former Tempelhof Airport sends an important signal. Coming to terms with the events of October 7th must not be forgotten, and the exhibition serves as a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and the hope for an end to the violence.