Who is Moshe Holtzberg? A look at the story of the Jewish toddler who survived 26/11

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oshe Holtzberg’s story is probably one of the most moving stories of 26/11. The 26/11 attacks left Moshe an orphan. Moshe’s parents, Rabbi Gavriel (father) and Rivka (mother) were killed by terrorists in the attack on Nariman House on November 26, 2008.
Today, Little Moshe will visit Nariman House, the place where his parents were murdered. Here is his story:
  • When the attack happened on Nariman House, Mumbai's Chabad Lubavitch Jewish centre, Moshe was present in the same building. He was saved by his nanny, Sandra Samuel.
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  • Sandra found Moshe sitting near his parent’s body, crying. She risked her life to save Moshe and fled the Nariman House with Moshe.
Photo courtesy: AP
  • Moshe was two days away from his second birthday when his parents were killed in the terrorist attack.
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  • Moshe and his nanny then moved to Israel where Moshe’s maternal grandparents, Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg, live.
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  • Moshe celebrated his 10th birthday in 2016 at his grandparent’s place. Sandra and Moshe are inseparable. During Moshe’s 10th birthday Sandra said, “Once I said I'd stay with Moshe until he turned five, then I said I'd stay with him until he turned ten. Now I say until his bar mitzva. We just can't stand to be separated.”
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  • Moshe’s family worries about how much Moshe remembers about his parents’ murder and the carnage. Sandra in an interview to CNN in 2008 said, “No one knows how much Moshe saw, or how much he knows."
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  • Indian PM Narendra Modi met Moshe during his visit to Israel last year.
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  • During his meeting with PM Modi, Moshe said he wished to visit India soon. Moshe presented PM Modi with a gift during their meeting. PM Modi also pledged long term visas to Moshe and his family so they can "come to India anytime".
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  • Moshe will be visiting Nariman House, the place where he lost his parents, on Tuesday. "We are all very excited to visit India. This will be Moshe's first visit to the Nariman House in over nine years," Moshe’s grandfather Rosenberg told PTI over phone from Israel.

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