The first comprehensive, verified documentary record of firsthand accounts from October 7 — preserved in the words of the people who were there.
“Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is as strong as death.”
Alon Penzel’s Testimonies Without Boundaries compiles exclusive, unfiltered testimonies from the people who were there: survivors of the kibbutzim and the Nova festival, recovery and rescue forces, medical professionals, and forensic teams. The project was built to meet an evidentiary bar most commemorations do not attempt — every account verified, every source identified, every testimony preserved in the words of the person who gave it.
The book is a bestseller in nine countries and is available in seven languages. Mitzpe Press publishes the new edition as the fourth title in its launch catalog. The horror is in the detail, and the detail is in the voices. Testimonies Without Boundaries refuses the distance that abstract language imposes on atrocity.
Buy on Amazon →“As tough as this book is to read, we must all bear witness. And we must never allow this brutality to happen again.”
“The body of testimonies in front of you documents a terrible truth, first-hand from eyewitnesses, individual stories from people’s mouths, without summarizing events, without headlines and generalizations or sensationalism.”
“We must not and cannot forget, not even for a moment, all of our abducted people.”
Nothing enters the record unconfirmed. Each testimony was checked before it was included.
No anonymous voices. Each account is attributed to the person who gave it.
Kept in the words of the person who spoke them, without the softening of paraphrase.
The same record, published across seven languages in hardcover, paperback, and eBook. Prices and links vary by market.
Author of two books — the first written at sixteen — Penzel built this record to the standard of evidence, not commemoration. He compiled and verified every testimony it contains.
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Every Mitzpe Press book is held to one editorial standard — forensic grounding, structural integrity, and intellectual honesty under pressure. The spectrum is pro-Israel; the filter is not.
The editorial standard →Penzel gathered these accounts while the evidence was still fresh and every one could still be checked against the person who gave it. A record that will be read as evidence has to be built as evidence.
