The grubby cloth doll that two-year-old Moshe tightly gripped on to when his nanny miraculously rescued him from Colaba’s Nariman House, continues to comfort him.
2-year-old’s parents were subjected to ‘almost inhuman’ torture, doctor says
MUMBAI: The grubby cloth doll that two-year-old Moshe tightly gripped on to when his nanny miraculously rescued him from Colaba’s Nariman House, continues to comfort him. The gruesome death his Israeli parents Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivki met with at the hands of the two slain terrorists, makes one wonder how the baby — who turned two on Saturday — escaped without a scratch.
Kept at an “undisclosed location” in safe custody of his maternal grandparents, who arrived from Israel on Thursday night along with the ZAKA emergency medical services unit, Moshe’s survival is an incongruity in the ruthlessness otherwise displayed by the terrorists. A doctor, who examined the bodies of the Rabbi and his wife at the JJ Hospital morgue, told DNA that both had been subjected to “almost inhuman torture”.
Revealing details of the gruesome injuries, the doctor requested us not to publish the details as a mark of respect for the dead. “I can scientifically say that the hostages were killed on Wednesday night itself. Rigor mortis had long set in, the bodies were bloated and very difficult to recognise,” the doctor said, requesting anonymity.
Local Jew, Aaron Abraham, a doctor who was close to the Rabbi and his family, said that he had examined Moshe and treated him for a fever. “He is doing fine now. He is with his grandparents and Israeli officials. It is his birthday today.”
The bodies of Moshe’s parents and other slain hostages were brought in at the morgue on Friday night. The ZAKA team requested doctors not to conduct an autopsy on the corpses as it goes against the Jewish religion. They were asked to get a letter from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, which arrived Saturday evening. It is learnt that Jewish law requires the burial of a dead person’s entire body, and the mission of the ultra Orthodox ZAKA volunteers is to rescue the living and in the case of the dead, gather all collectable pieces of flesh and blood.
They will take back the bodies of at least nine Israelis killed in the attacks across Mumbai. Moshe, too young to comprehend the tragedy, will fly back with them.
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