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One co-president called it a "deliberate, thoughtful, proactive measure to remember, honor and memorialize the events on Oct. 27, 2018."

Congregation, a synagogue that holds services at tree of life and the forward reports an 80-year-old holocaust survivor missed the shooting but showing up four minutes late to the service that day. he pulled his car into a parking space yesterday morning at tree of life congregation when he said quote, somebody knocked on my window. there was this guy very calm and respectful. he told me you better back up. there is an active shooting going on in your synagogue. sam, to what you were talking about before, for you, what happened in the holocaust is history. we're contemporaries in age but there...

Sad as that is. >> yes, very sad. we heard from michael eisenberg. he is the immediate past president of the tree of life congregation synagogue and he spoke to reporters. >> what would have been happening, you said around 9:45, right? >> three simultaneous congregations, services, that are being held in the main part of the building. tree of life is having a service that has about 40 people in it. just below that service area, there's a basement area where new light congregation would be having their shabbat service, around 40 people. just adjacent to tree of life's service area, congregation...