Every innocent victim of terror has his or her own story.
The stories are heart-breaking, and hard to read. But as we have learned in
attempting to live our lives after the murder of our beloved Malki,
allowing the memory of their lives to be forgotten is far worse.
In trying to learn about how other families use the web
to remember their murdered loved one, it seemed to us that no one had
created a list where websites honoring individual victims of terror were
gathered in a single place. (We don't mean group-listings of
terror victim names, since there are several of those - see at right.
And we don't mean websites that display their names and images in
order to raise money for some general purpose. There are several of
As people directly and personally affected by terror and
who have learned the crucial importance of remembering, we have started
the process of creating one here.
The love of family and friends
Not everyone has the presence of mind or the emotional
willingness or the technical skill to put together a website in memory
of their loved one. But many do, in particular the families and friends
of those whose lives ended in barbaric violence.
It's fitting that those memorials be known - and visited
- by the largest possible number of people.
Here is our contribution towards remembering the more than one thousand
(as of January 2005 when these lines are being written) civilian victims of
the Second Arafat War of Terror against
Israelis and against Jews, declared on Rosh Hashanah of the year 2000.
It will remain a work in progress for some time as we gather data and
You can help. If you know of websites that memorialize individual
civilian terror victims, whether Israeli or other,
please let us know.
Physical commemoration sites in Israel
One final word: physical memorials to
Israeli victims of terror are catalogued in an extraordinary website
A People Remembers (in Hebrew:
יושביה) The work of one man, Yossi Zur, whose son
Assaf (Blondi) was murdered in a terror attack in Haifa in 2003, the
well-designed and elaborate site documents the hundreds of terror victim
commemoration sites around our beleaguered country.