Sandra Samuel kisses Moshe Holtzberg, orphan of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, after rescuing him from Nariman House (TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL / AP IMAGES).
“Back inside, in the noise and confusion, Rabbi Holtzberg made a last-second phone call to the Israeli Consulate. It was a cool plea for help. “The situation is not good,” he told the officer on duty in Hebrew. The line went dead.
Rivka, six months pregnant, tightly clutched Moshe, who would not stop crying as the gunmen, two men named Babar Imran and Nasir, made their way up to their second floor living quarters.”
Detailed, riveting, heart breaking, astonishing, almost minute-by-minute recount of the Mumbai attacks.
‘Sixty Hours of Terror’ by Jason Motlagh on The Virginia Quarterly Review.
