“I couldn’t imagine I would lose my daughter here. It’s just a nightmare,” her mother, Valentyna, said before the funeral. Her father, Michael, said they had chosen Matilda’s name as a nod to Australia, where the folk song Waltzing Matilda is sung as an unofficial national anthem. “The tragic, so totally cruel, unfathomable murder of young Matilda is something to all of us as if our own daughter was taken from us,” Rabbi Yehoram Ulman said. “Matilda grew up like a child would, loving what children love. She loved the outdoors, animals. She went to school, she had friends, everybody...
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