Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, is being remembered as an “innocent, beautiful, friendly genuine girl”.
The 10-year-old girl was among the 15 people shot dead during a Hanukkah event on Sunday.
She was at the event with her six-year-old sister Summer, who had sadly witnessed the whole thing, according to their aunt Lina Czernik.
“With the permission of her mother, I would like to say (Matilda) was a sweet innocent, beautiful, friendly genuine girl,” Czernik told 7NEWS.com.au.
“It’s a big loss for our family.
“She was there with her younger sister who witnessed everything and (is) now devastated.”
Photos taken during the event show the two sisters smiling while posing for the camera arm-in-arm. Matilda also had her face painted, and was pictured playing with a small goat.
Czernik said Matilda’s father was “beyond stressed” and that her sister was distraught.
“They were the happiest kids you can imagine. It’s just like they don’t have much, but they were happy with what they have, you know, like going out on the beach for walks. Just simple things in life,” she said.
“We will never be happy family again.”
Rabbi Eli Schlanger and Rabbi Yaakov Levitan are also among the victims killed when alleged gunmen 50-year-old Sajid Akram and 24-year-old Naveed Akram fired shots into crowds of people at Bondi Beach.
Sajid was eventually shot and killed by police, while his son was critically injured and taken to hospital.
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