I am Israel's Lady in Red and this is how I survived Nova festival massacre
Summary
TLDRVlada papov, a 25-year-old Ukrainian-born Israeli mother, recounts surviving the October 2022 Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival, where gunmen killed 340 people. She describes enjoying the festival before suddenly hearing gunshots and sirens, then witnessing terrorists shooting people trying to flee. Trapped between gunmen on both sides of the road, Vlada and others hide in shelters before running to nearby fields. Separated from her partner Matan, Vlada jumps into a car of strangers to escape while Matan is left behind. After a harrowing drive, Vlada reaches safety but is distraught not knowing if Matan survived. She expresses horror at the nationwide attacks but resolve not to let the terrorists win.
Takeaways
- 😨 Vlada and her friend felt uneasy at the festival before the attack
- 😱 The terrorists disguised themselves in military uniforms and vehicles
- 🏃♀️Vlada and her friend fled to their car but got stuck in traffic trying to escape
- 🔫 The terrorists started shooting indiscriminately at the festival attendees
- 👮♂️ A policeman told them to run to a nearby shelter for safety
- 🚗 Vlada's friend My jumped into a passing car, leaving Vlada's husband Matan behind
- 💔 Matan witnessed the car driving away without him while he screamed for them to stop
- 🚑 Vlada and My were eventually rescued separately and taken to army bases
- 😭 The experience was deeply traumatizing for Vlada, My and Matan
- 🙏 Vlada feels lucky to have survived and reunited with her young daughter
Q & A
What event is Vlada recounting in this interview?
-Vlada is recounting her experience surviving the October 7th massacre at the Supernova Festival in Israel, where Hamas gunmen killed 340 people and took 40 hostage.
What made Vlada feel like something was not right at the festival?
-Vlada said she felt it was very cold and something did not feel right, even though she would normally be dancing at an event like this.
How did Vlada and others try to escape the attack?
-When the attack started, Vlada and others tried to get to their cars to escape, but the roads were blocked by other vehicles and they had nowhere to go.
How did Vlada ultimately survive the attack?
-Vlada survived by hiding under a tree briefly, before a man opened the door to his car and let Vlada and her friend My jump in right before My was shot.
What happened to Vlada's husband Matan during the attack?
-Matan was not initially let into the car with Vlada. He survived by getting into another army vehicle that eventually rescued him.
How long did the terrorist attack last?
-Vlada said the shooting and attacks went on for two days before the area was cleared of terrorists.
What injuries did Vlada sustain during the attack?
-Vlada did not mention sustaining any physical injuries, but the emotional trauma is still evident when she recalls the events.
How has the attack impacted Vlada's outlook?
-Though still processing what happened, Vlada says she does not want to fall down or let them win and is thankful she survived to see her young daughter again.
Why does Vlada believe so many were impacted by this attack?
-She states that everyone in the country lost someone or was impacted in some way, given the scale and duration of the attacks.
How does Vlada feel about her image becoming an iconic photo from the attack?
-She is happy her image symbolizes a girl who survived rather than someone who didn't, giving people some hope.
Outlines
😱 Surviving a Terrorist Attack at a Music Festival
Vlada describes being at a music festival in Israel when a terrorist attack happens. She hears gunshots and screaming and tries to escape in her car, but the road is blocked. A man tries to run from his car but is shot by the terrorists. Vlada and her friend hide under a tree before getting into a car with strangers to try to escape, but have to leave her partner Matan behind.
☠️ Terrorists Shoot at Fleeing Civilians
Vlada describes the terrorists driving around shooting randomly at civilians. She has to leave her partner Matan behind as her car speeds away. Matan finds safety in another car. Vlada's car gets shot at but they make it to an army base safely after a 20 minute drive, although the attacks around the area continue for days.
😭 Emotional Reunion with Daughter
Vlada talks about reuniting emotionally with her young daughter Romy after surviving the attacks. She and her partner Matan are deeply affected. She reflects that everyone in the country lost someone in the attacks. She hopes the iconic photo of her escape provides some hope.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡massacre
💡hostage
💡shelter
💡terrorist
💡trauma
💡fear
💡survivor
💡loss
💡hope
💡terror
Highlights
Vlada describes feeling something was not right before the attack started
Vlada heard gunshots and screams of terrorists attacking
Vlada and others tried to escape but the road was blocked
A police officer told them to run to a shelter for safety
The terrorists drove around shooting everyone
Matan was separated from Vlada and could not get in their car
Vlada's car was shot at and got a flat tire but they escaped
The 20 minute drive to safety felt like the longest ever
Even after reaching safety, the shooting continued for days
Vlada is thankful to have survived and reunite with her daughter
Vlada's photo became a symbol of hope for those who survived
Vlada had to run for her life and could not process what was happening
Vlada wants to stay strong and not let the terrorists win
The attack deeply impacted everyone in Israel
Vlada saw other survivors deeply affected and broken by the trauma
Transcripts
I asked some girl where you go and she's
screaming there terrorist right there at
the
car before me stops the man run try to
run from the car and they shoot him many
people died there many
people she became known as the lady in
red and was one of the most hauntingly
iconic images from the October 7
massacre in Israel for weeks the world
has wondered if she survived the attack
on the Supernova Festival where Hamas
gunman killed 340 people and took 40
hostage now Ma online has found her and
for the first time Vlada papov a
25-year-old Ukrainian born mother of one
who lives near ashod in southern Israel
tells the harrowing story of how she
survived at night we going through the
party usually this party starts from
from the night to the other
evening and we came there at 3 at
6 and at 6 and a half it was very very
cold so I told ma H let's go and
um lay on a blanket and something
doesn't feel right and I heard from many
people that something in the day really
don't feel right I am usually go dancing
and there I I don't feel like this I
want to go and lay and and then we have
in Israel some applica application
applications apps that H shows you when
H Rockets go so we have the yeah so I
have it all time in
729 I have the the the first um siren in
a phone so we going to the car starting
to look where the car our car is because
so many people trying to go out and it
was like starting to be some little CHS
like uh and after 20 minutes I think
from everything that start I found the
car I went to the car and I heard a
three or four shots it be the first time
I think that they threw so many rackets
like it was something unusual the party
was in an open field okay and to go out
from the party there is only one way one
road we drive in something like 6
minutes and I see that car stopping like
everyone stops and I open the window and
I asked some girl where you go and she's
screaming there terrorist right
there the
car before me stops the man run try to
run from the car and they shoot him they
see a big Savanah white Savanah a car
and they even they were in half a
uniform of our soldiers there is nowhere
to to drive because everyone just
stopped their cars we don't have where
to go like the the road is blocked and
they start to scream that there
terrorist from the other side too so we
blocked all this still Rockets it was
without
stopping
and and then I remember there was
a like a safe place we have it a lot in
Israel because of the
bombing you okay yeah many people died
there many
people
and in the shelter yeah in the shelter
in that area they have a like mini
shelters open without a door only um Bon
yeah and um so we being
there next to the policeman and and then
was a moment that the policemen look all
of us and just scream if you want to be
safe you just need to run to the shield
fieldi field it's um above the street we
looked one in other I want to stay there
and thank God the time didn't
end um and we we go back to the car and
then we
see 200
300 like they were
a 50 60 from any side terrorist yeah and
they they start and then they start to
just driving and running and in
motorcycles in savano in tenders white
tenders just going to in the field and
shoot everyone like
I don't know even how to explain it like
a
chicken yeah they just uh driving and
shoot everyone so I go out from the car
Matan go out from the car from the other
side and my from
behind um and I just sit like this under
the tree the the first tree that I have
next to me and then some boy tells me
hey you want to come here you want to of
course of course and he opened the door
and you can hear one of the boys behind
screaming no no no don't stop her don't
stop her let just just drive and he
stops me stopped
me and uh then my saw
me my running I remember my running on
her life like she understand if I'm
going in that car she she don't survive
like and she she's running to me and he
she's always falling like falling down
and and she just jumped to the
car like you see in the video she just
jumped and they closed the door and when
they close the door then we hear
Matan ER screaming like
V I'm here let me go to the car
and they just um
lock the door again yeah and I remember
matan's face like at start he like
uh say me goodbye you understand that
that's it we were in a car eight people
in a mini Kaya Picanto they take
everyone he can they can
and so in that moment I
just
yeah Matan saw us Matan saw us going to
the car and 2 m from us he he started
running to us and he just like screaming
FL FL don't and I can because my jumped
on me and they shot the doors I was like
this in the car and I can't open even
the door and I don't know who from us is
going to survive and come back to our
daughter
and
yeah
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and then Matan telling me that no one is
want
to take him after I think 10 minutes
some nice lady I don't know till
now who she
is take Matan and then God Matan going
to another Army buzz and me to another
one H it's the someone start to shoot us
from the
front 2 minutes I I I think
they have a puncher in a wheel
mhm and and after 2 minutes the drivers
tell us it's okay look uh look look down
and we saw a terrorist in a white
Savannah Dead who killed him the other
terrorist
why they even don't looking where they
shooting they just driving screaming and
shooting
everywhere the terrorist was be in front
of us then we take a right when the
terrorist where it was right they start
shooting from right so we take left and
I remember this was the longest 20
minutes ever the way to the buz
and we came there there many people
like I don't know we were 60 70 we was
here there till the
night H because to when we go there we
just and you know we think that we
save
we I I think only there I'm understand
what happening and and then we open the
phone and we started to see what is
really going on it's not only us it's
not only of the party it's it's like
it's everywhere even at night it's still
where the shooting like it was a
word everywhere I think for two days
yeah for two days they can't
clean completely from the terrorist the
area I just so happy that I came back to
came back to my daughter that really
nothing else don't matter what's your
daughter's name Romy Romy and how old is
Romy two and a half
years almost and a half 2 and a five
months when when you saw Romy you must
have just given her a massive C Mass
huge I just I think there I before in a
in a base when I called my father and I
have a Ukraine father like and I tell
him dad everyone everyone dead everyone
is dead and the next time was when I go
back to to homie and I just fall down
like emotional
yeah and Matan as well yeah Matan Matan
like I'm the woman I can cry I can and I
think that Matan was so Terri Teri and
so and he tries not to to show this
because you know she he's the man he
needs to support me but you can see
everyone seeing on his
eyes months after
this and still that it's it's very
difficult for him very
difficult I still think about the F our
friends that not survived this and all
the hostages there so many babies and
children so I I I think I I
still I still don't understand with
myself what uh is going on everyone in
the country lost someone
everyone I don't think that that they
don't touch someone at that country
somehow if it's someone he knows
kidnapped or or even someone dead and
the fact that your image has gone around
the world everyone has seen that picture
of you running you know with your red
scarf and what what does do you think
about
that I'm just happy that the symbol of
the like this picture it
the of girl that survived and not
someone that not like it gives me some
hope I
think and you can see the fear in your
face can't you the fear that un
understandable look I don't understand
like I just understand that I need to
run on my life like that's it I don't I
I I can't see nothing I can't look back
because they they running and shoot like
so you have to live for ROM yeah you
have to get
yeah I saw people from from the party
after this in some meetings and
everything they broken maybe that's the
person that I am like I I don't want to
fall down I don't want to let them
win because it's not going to happen no
but I saw like people broken yeah not
was something um understandable
yeah
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