“I survived when my three brothers were murdered. I survive for her. I make them immortal in every way possible,” says Asael Shabo. Image: Imago
As a child, a terrorist killed three siblings and his mother. Today Asael Shabo is a wheelchair basketball player for a German club – outstandingly good and forever the child who survived.
Asael Shabo is having nightmares more often again. “Since the war broke out in Israel on October 7th, I have had ten terrible nightmares,” says Asael Shabo: “When I saw the horror of what was happening, I started having flashbacks. I saw what my family experienced 21 years ago.”
What does that mean, for example?
“I recently read about a seven-year-old whose burned body was found in the attic. The house he lived in had been set on fire. This bothered me so much that I dreamed I was the boy. I have everything in mind in detail. Luckily my wife woke me up before the terrorists came. I’ll never get rid of that feeling, the feeling of being that boy.”
