At the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Lower Manhattan, time stands still. Yarin Ilovich was playing a sunrise DJ set at the Israeli music festival on Oct. 7 when everything came to a crashing halt.

“My partner Nimrod told me, ‘Yarin, shut down the music!’ and I said, ‘Shut down?’ and he said, ‘Yes, it’s a code red,’” Ilovich said.

At 6:29 a.m., the peaceful gathering quickly became deadly when Hamas militants launched a surprise attack, shooting at festivalgoers as rockets flew overhead.

“Everybody was in chaos. People running to other sites, different sites, shouting. There was big traffic in the parking spots because on the road, there was a terror attack between the police and the terrorists,” Ilovich said.

As attendees tried to flee, jeeps filled with gunmen began firing at the escaping cars. They also blockaded roads. Ilovich said he remembers hiding under a police vehicle for four hours as gunfire erupted around him.

“You need to be the most cautious because the aim is on you, because if someone sees you, they will shoot you,” Ilovich said.

Everything at the Nova exhibition was once on festival grounds. Tents filled with sand, sleeping bags and scriptures. Cellphones frozen at 6:29 a.m. Forgotten hats, shirts, and shoes. Portable toilets with bullet holes, and cars practically burnt to a crisp.

“For me, it is most important that they know what really happened there,” Ilovich said.

About 370 civilians were killed during the attack. Their faces cover the walls of the Nova exhibition.

“I think we’ve lost a sense of humanity behind this massacre and the Israeli people and the festival people,” exhibition organizer Josh Kaden said. “When you walk around the exhibit, you see yourself in these people.”

Festivalgoers weren’t the only ones impacted. The Hamas invasion resulted in 1,200 deaths across Israel and the kidnapping of 250 people — 44 of which were from Nova. To this day, about 130 hostages remain unaccounted for.

“They will never forget and it will remain with them all their lives. The feeling after this event, it will last forever,” Ilovich said.

The sprawling exhibition culminates in the Nova healing tent, where patrons make a solemn vow: “We Will Dance Again.”