# @cnn on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cys8LgDtfcH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9456305-cnn-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/b29f4a207e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-10-22T13:07:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CNN (@CNN) — https://gondola.cc/CNN

## Caption

Charlotte Hauptman's instinct was to run. She’s an elfin 84-year-old with bright, engaging eyes. She wears her hair tied back and speaks with a similar no-nonsense style. “In those hours, it was just constant panic,” she told CNN after leaving Jerusalem and landing safely back home in Southern California. “I’m not afraid of death, but of what can come before.”

Hauptman is a Holocaust survivor. So, this was the second time she’d fled a group targeting Jews. She fled Hamas in Israel in 2023 by plane as an old lady. She fled the Nazis in Italy in 1944 on foot as a small child.

“We were sitting having breakfast in the hotel. We had made reservations for a tour to Bethlehem and Jerusalem,” said Hauptman. “Suddenly the alarms went off and I just looked at the faces of the locals and I read their faces. Panic.”

Read more about Hauptman's story at the link in bio.

📷: Elizabeth Weinberg for CNN

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CNN | @CNN | https://gondola.cc/CNN | Television News Network |
| Sofia Barrett | @sofia_barrett | https://gondola.cc/sofia_barrett | Producer |

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