Mumbai: It took the psychologist three hours to calm him down a day after he landed in Mumbai. He was in the same city after nine years, where terrorists had shot dead his parents at Chabad House on 26/11 in 2008: the person in question is Moshe Holtzberg.
Moshe was in Mumbai the previous week; the occasion was the inauguration of a memorial to the victims of 26/11 at Chabad House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Moshe is 11 now. He was accompanied by his two sets of grandparents, his uncle, a psychologist and nanny Sandra Samuels, who is known to the world as the heroic Indian nanny who had saved toddler Moshe from the jaws of death during the Mumbai terror attacks nine years ago.
"God bless the psychologist. He has left his family behind to take care of Moshe. I feel pain for Moshe. He is still not showing signs of recovery. I hope he recovers. Every year, I fear for Moshe's life. He slips into depression for almost two months during the time of the memorial, when the media starts hounding him," Sandra said in an exclusive interview to CNN-News 18.
Samuels said there is something about the horror that he went through that even today he can't "verbalise it".
"The media behaves like animals. They must think before they act. You can't do this to a child. He is terrified with mikes. He is very scared of flash lights. He doesn’t like crowded places. He doesn't like anybody taking his pictures. He hates it. He is scared of darkness. Even today, there is something in his subconscious mind. He cannot verbalise it," Sandra said.
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