About Bring Them Light

Preserving lives through memory, story, and light.

Bring Them Light exists to hold individual legacies with care: to listen, record and share the stories that keep a person’s memory present long after the news cycle moves on. We work compassionately alongside families to honor who their loved ones were, not just how they were lost.

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Documentary photograph from October 7, 2023, the context from which Bring Them Light began

How Bring Them Light Began

October 7, 2023, left families and communities with a grief that cannot be contained in a headline. We started this project because remembrance is not a single day on a calendar; it is the slow, daily work of saying a name, telling a story, and keeping a life visible.

Our focus is deeply personal. Through quiet conversations and careful listening, we help shape tributes from what families want the world to know. We believe memory is a form of care, and that preserving someone’s story is a profound way to refuse erasure.

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Our Process: From Pain to Light

Crafting Tributes That Keep Memories Alive

  1. Collage of family photographs gathered during compassionate remembrance conversations

    1. CONNECT WITH FAMILIES

    We begin with compassionate conversations, listening deeply to understand each family’s wishes. Together, we gather stories, photos, and memories that capture their loved one’s essence.

  2. Memorial tribute film frames showing narrative text and photographs being shaped into a video

    2. CRAFT THE TRIBUTE

    With great care, we shape these materials into a meaningful video. Every detail, from the narrative to the visuals is crafted to reflect the unique light of the person we’re honoring

  3. Collage of photographs shared with families during tribute preview and review

    3. REVIEW TOGETHER

    Families receive a preview to ensure every word and image feels true. We refine the tribute until it resonates with emotional accuracy and depth.

  4. Memorial profile cards published on Bring Them Light, each honoring an individual life remembered

    4. SHARE AND REMEMBER

    Once the tribute is complete, it is shared through our platforms, keeping their memory alive and shining for all who come to remember.

Our mission, values, and vision

Our Mission

We are here for remembrance carved from story and light - not as a slogan, but as a practice. Every life we touch is held with the weight it deserves: preserving who someone was beyond the headlines, in the detail that only family and friends can name.

Through tribute films and unhurried conversation, we deepen human connection so grief is not faced alone and memory has a place to land.

Our Values

Our work is anchored in compassion, integrity, and care. We approach every family with respect for memory - never smoothing someone into a generic arc.

Human dignity and emotional authenticity are not boxes we check; they are the air the project breathes, from first call to final frame.

Our Vision

We imagine a living memorial experience - quiet, durable, and hospitable - where the people we carry forward are known as more than a date.

A space where memories continue to shine, and where connection through remembrance and storytelling outlasts the noise of the moment. That is the north star we build toward, one story at a time.

The people behind the project

Committed to remembrance with care

  • Lihie Gilhar, founder of Bring Them Light

    Lihie Gilhar

    Founder of Bring Them Light

    A clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience, Lihie created Bring Them Light from a deep moral call to transform grief into light and ensure every individual is remembered as a soul who lived, loved, and mattered.

  • Carrie Sandler, co-founder of Bring Them Light

    Carrie Sandler

    Co-founder of Bring Them Light

    Carrie helps shape the project with care, sensitivity, and a commitment to honoring each story with dignity. Her work supports the relationships and details that allow memory to be preserved with warmth and respect.

The light monument

A living field of light for every story we carry forward

Alongside the films and written tributes, Bring Them Light is building toward a quiet public memorial: a luminous installation where each light represents a name, a life, and a story preserved with care.

The monument is not separate from the archive: it is that same intimate work made visible.
It brings together the personal memories gathered alongside families into a singular, sacred space.
A place where visitors can pause, witness, and remember.

Explore the Light Monument

The story of Bring Them Light has touched hearts far beyond our community, drawing the attention of leading publications that share our belief in remembrance, light, and human connection.

Each article helps spread our mission to honor how they lived, not only how they were lost.

“When memory is carried with care, it becomes a light others can gather around.”

Through every conversation, every article, and every tribute, Bring Them Light invites people to pause long enough to see a whole life, not a headline.

Carry the light forward

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If a story, a name, or a life should be remembered here, we welcome you to reach out gently.

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