In the exhibition room of Berlin’s old Tempelhof Airport, three burned-out cars lie on their sides.

The windows, interiors and paintwork are gone; all that remains are lumps of twisted and rusted metal. Next to them is a rough circle of tents and scattered mats.

A picnic chair has toppled over on one, others are strewn with abandoned bags, camping equipment and discarded fairy lights.

“Everything you see here is original from the festival on October 7th,” Ofir Amir explains.

He’s referring to the Nova Music Festival, where around 400 people were murdered on 7 October 2023.

In the week where peace finally feels like a possibility, Ofir is remembering those killed in a massacre that sparked the latest conflict.

All around us are tables of abandoned items left behind in the panic. One displays clothes; another is filled with shoes.

All of them are reminders of a day, Ofir, who was a co-founder of the festival, nearly didn’t survive.

“When the terrorists came to the festival area, we saw them just shooting into the crowd that was running away from them,” he tells me.

Ofir and his friends managed to jump into a car and started to drive away, but they were cornered by Hamas militants who opened fire.

One of their friends died, and Ofir was shot in both legs. He remembers he was on the phone to his wife, who was nine months pregnant at the time.

‘How will my wife raise a child alone’

“This was all I could ever think about,” he says, “that I might not come home, and how will my wife raise a child alone.”

Ofir’s friends used what they could to stop the bleeding and managed to keep him alive until help came.

The memorial exhibition was created in memory of those who died.

It’s already opened in cities including New York and Toronto, but on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks, the exhibition began its first European show in Berlin.

“With so much hate going on, so much antisemitism everywhere on the streets, all over the world, it’s important to show the world and give them a reminder when you go so blindly and follow hate, what the outcome can be,” Ofir says.

Omri Sasi, also a co-founder and DJ at the Nova Music Festival, was in the car with Ofir when they were hit.

He picks out faces from a long line of photos which cover one wall.

‘They were murdered together’

“This is my uncle, Avi Sasi. This is Alex Luke, my friend from Montreal… they were murdered together,” he says.

Beside them are the photos of Omri’s pregnant cousin and her husband, who were also killed.

Despite their losses, Omri and Ofir say they don’t want the exhibition to focus on religion or politics but to help spread peace.

However, the memorial event has faced some opposition; for example, several hundred demonstrators protested against Israel at the exhibit in New York.

In Los Angeles, Omri says a pro-Palestinian group also gathered outside the show. He invited them in, and they talked about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

‘We cried together’

“We cried together, we hugged each other and we understood that the best way to deal with this war is to talk,” he says. “Not to fight and not hit people.”

More than 60,000 Gazans have died in the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

Omri tells me he has friends in Gaza, that he wants the ceasefire to hold, and Gazans “to have a good life” – but he’s also deeply concerned by the rise in antisemitism he’s seen in the last two years.

“People are scared,” he says. “Even when I go out here in Berlin, I look around myself and I try to not speak in Hebrew, and this is sad.

“It doesn’t need to be like this.”

Authorities across Europe have warned about growing hate and violence against Jewish people since the October 7 attack.

The fatal synagogue attack in Manchester has added to the fear.

This week, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief said antisemitism had increased with sometimes open calls for attacks on Jewish institutions, while the country’s chancellor denounced the trend as “shameful”.

At the Berlin exhibition, Liora Furema says she’s worried about her safety as a Jewish student when she goes to university or to the synagogue.

“At any Jewish event, I think about my security,” she explained.

It’s hoped the ceasefire will be the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza, but the fear of antisemitism remains.

Rather than deepening the divisions, the organisers say the show is a reminder of the dangers of allowing hate to flourish. They now are focusing on healing.

“Our message is, we will dance again,” says Omri. “Whatever happened to us, we are standing and dancing again. Terror cannot beat us.”

Partners of a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone have said they are open to a possible settlement with the government after the company was found to have breached a £122m PPE contract.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) had accused PPE Medpro of providing 25 million “faulty”, non-sterile gowns during the COVID pandemic.

The High Court ruled earlier this month that it must pay back a £121.9m sum, the price of the gowns.

PPE Medpro, a consortium led by Lady Mone‘s husband Doug Barrowman, filed to enter administration earlier this month.

In a statement on Friday, Mr Barrowman said: “The consortium partners of PPE Medpro are prepared to enter into a dialogue with the administrators of the company to discuss a possible settlement with the government.”

PPE Medpro has spent £4.3m defending its position.

It said offers to settle on a no-fault basis had been made, including the remake of 25 million gowns, or a £23m cash equivalent, which were rejected.

The consortium was awarded government contracts by the former Conservative administration to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic after Lady Mone recommended it to ministers.

It insists that it provided all 25 million gowns and disputes that the gowns were not sterile.

It is understood the partners want to resolve the issue, and administrators have been urged to approach the government to reach an agreement.

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In the High Court ruling, Mrs Justice Cockerill said the gowns “were not, contractually speaking, sterile, or properly validated as being sterile”. This meant they could not be used in the NHS.

Barristers for PPE Medro claimed it had been “singled out for unfair treatment” and accused the government of “buyer’s remorse”.

It claimed the gowns had become defective because of the conditions they were kept in after being delivered. It also said the court made its ruling on a technicality.

Lady Mone branded the judgement a win for the “establishment”, while Mr Barrowman said it was a “travesty of justice”.

Baroness Mone, who created the lingerie brand Ultimo, was made a Conservative peer in 2015.

She now says she has “no wish to return” to the House of Lords.

Liz Hurley has encouraged women to check themselves for breast cancer – and warned some are not because they “are scared that it’s self-indulgent to spend time on themselves”.

The British actress and model, who has been a global ambassador for the Estee Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign for 30 years, told Sky News’ Jacquie Beltrao the demands of everyday life mean women “always put ourselves last”.

“We’re doing stuff for kids, for husbands, for mothers, for in-laws. There’s so much that we have to do that we tend to come last,” she said.

Hurley, whose grandmother died of breast cancer, said she finds it helps by thinking of breast checks as a way to “keep ourselves healthy in order to continue to take care of everybody else”.

That way, it “doesn’t seem self-indulgent or taking time away from something else, it seems really important”.

Checking one’s breasts “takes two minutes”, she added, or “about the same length of time as brushing your teeth”.

More than a third of women in the UK do not take up the first mammogram appointment they are offered, and a recent study of 500,000 women from Sweden found a similar non-attendance rate there.

More than 11,000 people die from breast cancer every year in the UK, or 31 each day, Cancer Research UK said.

That makes it the second most common form of cancer death, accounting for 7% of all cancer deaths, the charity said.

Asked whether some of the messaging had “fallen on deaf ears”, Hurley said attending screenings, which are free on the NHS, is “definitely advised”, and she suggested all women should familiarise themselves with their breasts.

In the past, the illness was seen as “a disease for older ladies. And we didn’t understand that younger women also get diagnosed. That’s been a lot in the news lately”, Hurley said.

“There appear to be more women, younger women being diagnosed. And that could well be one of the reasons is that people are more breast aware, more self-aware.”

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She told Ms Beltrao, who is a breast cancer survivor, people “have seen you on television talking about breast cancer”.

As a result of more awareness, she said, women have “begun to understand that it can never be too early to start checking your own breasts and to familiarise yourself [with them].

“When you’re younger and you’re not yet having regular mammograms, you do really have to be aware of your own breasts to be able to see if there’s a change, feel if there is a change and go to your doctor.”