"Didn't do anything special:" Moshe's nanny who helped him escape 26/11
January 19, 2018  09:40
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Describing herself as a "simple Indian woman", Sandra Samuels, who as a nanny saved the life of then two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg during 26/11 terror attacks, said she doesn't feel she did anything special. 

"My baby (Moshe) was there, I had to do something. I got a chance (to escape), I took it," she said. 

Samuels is visiting Mumbai with Moshe, who is now an 11-year-old boy living in Israel, and his grand parents. 

She said, "Everybody feels I did something special, but I don't feel so. Moshe was more special. God does everything. God put me in that position. 

"I have been extremely protective about Moshe and will always be there for him, whenever he calls me," said Samuels, who too now lives in Israel. 

"Moshe is very scared of camera flash guns. There is something in his subconscious mind that is connected to the horrific event," she said. 

Moshe's father Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and mother Rivka, who were then running the Chabad House, a Jewish cultural-religious centre, in south Mumbai, were killed with six others during the 26/11 terror attacks. 

Samuels, Moshe's nanny, managed to escape with the toddler.

Image: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu with 26/11 survivor Moshe and his nanny Sandra Samuels. Photograph: Shirish Shete/PTI Photo
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