Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the world convened a telephone-based Chasidic gathering in memory of Alta Shula Swerdlov, the three-year-old girl who perished last week in a Jerusalem traffic accident.

The Oct. 27 conference call came after the conclusion of the traditional seven-day mourning period following a burial. Rabbi Yossi Swerdlov, who directs Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl program, told the participants that he and his wife Hindel were touched by the outpouring of support.

“Although the pain of the loss is so great,” he said, “our family continues to draw inspiration from the hundreds of phone calls and personal visits from our family and friends over the past week.”

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, and Rabbi Yosef Aharonov, chairman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization in Israel, both addressed the gathering.

“The memory of Shula will live on,” said Kotlarsky. “The family of [emissaries] will remember, and will celebrate in your times of joy as well.”

The call concluded with a joint resolution to strengthen Jewish life in each emissary’s respective community, a task that many have already begun. In Swerdlov’s neighborhood of Rechavia, for instance, the local Chabad House – which caters to English-speaking residents in that part of the Israeli capital – launched a new youth program and dedicated pre-existing children’s programming in memory of the little girl.