In the year that has passed since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,200 were killed and 250 taken hostage, TV producer Jamie Geller has been documenting the growth that has sprung from much darkness. Her new documentary, October 7: Voices of Pain, Hope, and Heroism, tells the stories of five families whose lives changed forever on the day Hamas forces infiltrated Israel.

Geller explained how the project came about in an interview with the Washington Examiner. Feeling almost comatose after “the shock and the trauma” of the Oct. 7 attacks, Geller explained that she also “felt the strength of [her] grandparents’ stories of survival” through the Holocaust. Her grandparents’ tenacity helped her come to an important realization. “Whether we’ve been exiled from Israel, whether it was the Spanish inquisition, whether it was the Holocaust,” the most important part of the Jewish history of trauma is that “we got to rise from the ashes again,” Geller explained.