Freed Israeli hostage speaks out about captivity: 'I went through a Holocaust'

Mia Schem meets her mother and brother in Israel following her released by Hamas in November. (Government Press Office)

Mia Schem, a woman taken hostage by Hamas during the bloody Oct. 7 attacks and released back to safety in November, is opening up about her experiences in the terrorists' custody.

“It was important for me to reflect on the true situation of the people living in Gaza – who they are, and what I went through there," she told told Israeli news outlet Channel 13.

Schem, 21, told Channel 13 that while she was being held hostage by Hamas, she was transported into residential houses of the Gaza Strip.

“These are families under Hamas. In retrospect, I suddenly realized that I was with a family," she told the outlet. "Suddenly, I started asking myself questions. Why am I in a family’s house? Why are there children here? Why is there a woman here?”

Schem is a French-Israeli dual citizen who was abducted from a party in Kibbutz Re'im on Oct. 7.

“I will never forget this date,” Mia wrote earlier this month in a post on social media. “The pain and the fear, the hard sights, the friends who won’t come back, and the ones we have to bring back. But we will still win – we will still dance!”