Nanny moves to Israel with boy orphaned in Mumbai
MIGDAL HA-EMEK, Israel: After hiding for hours in the besieged Jewish center in Mumbai, Sandra Samuel suddenly heard a cry that made her forget all fear for her own safety: 2-year-old Moshe was calling his nanny’s name.
Ignoring crackling gunfire and exploding grenades, she says she charged up the stairs and found the toddler crying by his mother’s body, his pants soaked in blood. She grabbed the child and ran with him to safety.
Today, the 44-year-old Indian woman, a Christian, is the Orthodox Jewish toddler’s only remaining link to the life he once knew. Moshe Holtzberg’s Israeli parents died in the assault. Samuel, a recent widow, has left her own two sons and her homeland to move with the child to Israel, where she says she will stay “as long as my baby needs me.”
On Monday, Moshe cheerfully touched and identified in English the animal statues that rimmed the garden of his great-uncle’s home, where he and Samuel are staying in this small northern Israeli town….