Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger are 11 names Pittsburgh will never forget. Monday marked seven years since the deadly attack on congregants from Congregation Dor Hadash, New Light Congregation, and Tree of Life Congregation on Oct. 27, 2018.“They were beloved family and congregants to many who are here tonight. Neighbors to others, healers to some, friendly faces in stores of the streets to most of us,” said Maggie Feinstein, the director of 10.27 Healing Partnership. The organization held a commemoration ceremony inside the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill. During the event, friends and family of the victims shared memories of their loved ones before lighting a candle in their honor. “My dad was such a kind, gentle person who never would’ve hurt a soul,” said Jodi Kart. “He never said no to anybody in need.”Kart said her father, Melvin Wax, was incredibly devoted to his family and faith. She honored her father’s memory in the same room she sat in for about 12 hours on that fateful day, awaiting word on him. “On one hand, it’s retraumatizing, but on the other hand, being surrounded by all of the support people that we have here and all of the people that I’ve come to know and to love over the past seven years takes away a lot of that pain,” Kart told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. Keynote speaker Jason Lando was a Pittsburgh police commander at the time of the shooting and now serves as the chief of police in Fredrick, Maryland. Lando told the crowd he attended the Tree of Life for Sunday school and Hebrew school. He said he responded to the scene, worried that his 99-year-old grandfather was at the synagogue. “It was not until an hour into the incident that I learned my grandfather stayed home sick that day for the first time in 20 years,” Lando added. Through personal stories, song, and prayer, the community came together to share the following message. “They want people to know that the next generation cares, the next generation is learning about the 11, they’re learning about the event, and they’re figuring out how to integrate it into their own families, their own communities,” Feinstein said. The 10.27 Healing Partnership hosted a series of volunteer events in honor of the victims over the weekend.

PITTSBURGH —

Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger are 11 names Pittsburgh will never forget.

Monday marked seven years since the deadly attack on congregants from Congregation Dor Hadash, New Light Congregation, and Tree of Life Congregation on Oct. 27, 2018.

“They were beloved family and congregants to many who are here tonight. Neighbors to others, healers to some, friendly faces in stores of the streets to most of us,” said Maggie Feinstein, the director of 10.27 Healing Partnership.

The organization held a commemoration ceremony inside the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill.

During the event, friends and family of the victims shared memories of their loved ones before lighting a candle in their honor.

“My dad was such a kind, gentle person who never would’ve hurt a soul,” said Jodi Kart. “He never said no to anybody in need.”

Kart said her father, Melvin Wax, was incredibly devoted to his family and faith.

She honored her father’s memory in the same room she sat in for about 12 hours on that fateful day, awaiting word on him.

“On one hand, it’s retraumatizing, but on the other hand, being surrounded by all of the support people that we have here and all of the people that I’ve come to know and to love over the past seven years takes away a lot of that pain,” Kart told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4.

Keynote speaker Jason Lando was a Pittsburgh police commander at the time of the shooting and now serves as the chief of police in Fredrick, Maryland.

Lando told the crowd he attended the Tree of Life for Sunday school and Hebrew school.

He said he responded to the scene, worried that his 99-year-old grandfather was at the synagogue.

“It was not until an hour into the incident that I learned my grandfather stayed home sick that day for the first time in 20 years,” Lando added.

Through personal stories, song, and prayer, the community came together to share the following message.

“They want people to know that the next generation cares, the next generation is learning about the 11, they’re learning about the event, and they’re figuring out how to integrate it into their own families, their own communities,” Feinstein said.

The 10.27 Healing Partnership hosted a series of volunteer events in honor of the victims over the weekend.