Tributes are still pouring in for 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim, a Kansas native whose life was cut short last week in what the FBI says was a targeted antisemitic attack in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Lynn Milgrim of Johnson County and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, were on the eve of being engaged when they were killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.

Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.

Sarah Milgrim, killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday with her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, was very involved in Jewish life.

A memorial is growing outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where two Israeli Embassy staffers, including a Kansas native, were shot and killed Wednesday night in what federal authorities are calling an act of terror.

She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.

"And so I feel action is always the right way to go forward, because you take pain and you do something with it. You create more positivity with the people around you in the world.”

Sarah Milgrim grew up in Overland Park, leading the life of an American teenager. As she grew older, she developed a deeper commitment to her own Jewish identity.

Milgrim, then a 17-year-old senior, voiced her concerns about the sickening messages and symbols — which included a swastika — that were painted on a storage shed on the campus of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan., in February 2017.

The message we are giving is, what would Sarah want us to do? What would she whisper in our ears now? She would say, ‘More light, more love. Don’t fight darkness with more darkness.’”