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BABY MOSHE,
THE JEWISH SURVIVOR OF MUMBAI
Moshe Holtzberg is an 11-year-old Jewish survivor. In November 2008, when Moshe was just two-years-old,
he survived the atrocious Mumbai terror attacks.
One of the targets of the attack was Nariman House, also known as the Mumbai Chabad House, which was a Jewish cultural centre in the city. Moshe lived at Chabad House with his parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivka Holtzberg, who was six-months pregnant at the time. The couple managed the cultural centre.
The rst evening of the Mumbai attacks, ten terrorists, armed with grenades and AK-47’s stormed various buildings in the city. Two of those terrorists attacked Nariman House.
Moshe’s Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel, was in the building at the time of the attack. Hearing noises outside, she decided to
open the front door. When gun re struck the door, she slammed it shut and ran to hide as the terrorists made their way into the building. From her hiding place, Sandra could hear Moshe crying out for her. Not thinking of her own safety, she ran upstairs and found the toddler knelt down and crying next to the dead bodies of his parents. They had been mercilessly gunned down in front of him. Sandra grabbed Moshe and ran down the stairs and out the building, saving Moshe’s life.
The siege of the Chabad House continued and was part of a four-day terror attack that killed 165 people and wounded over 300.
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