Within hours of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, a small group of Israeli volunteers quickly set out to capture the historically significant digital stream of social media posts, selfies, images and messages from massacre survivors and those who perished.

Their project and the website they created—October7.org—has a simple goal: to collect, translate, and publish as many firsthand testimonies as possible, making them widely available in multiple languages, while also producing an education and research database focused on survivor stories and perspectives.

Noting that social media gives us 21st century access to the diary-like thoughts of others in the context of what they’re going through, October7 project workers say the bare minimum society can do this time is remember.