About 450 days ago, Ilana Gritzewsky was set free after spending 55 days in captivity in Gaza, but she says a part of her never returned home.
“My body returned, but my soul remains trapped,” Gritzewsky said while speaking at an event at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “I always feel that I am not really free. I cannot forget what happened, what I experienced.”
Gritzewsky was at home with her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists entered their community.
Gritzewsky jumped out of the window of her house, attempting to flee from the terrorists, but was caught and dragged from her hiding place by her hair, beaten, and driven on the back of a motorcycle into Gaza. The terrorists touched her, and that is when Gritzewsky says she remembers shutting down. She believes the only reason she was not raped that day…
