'I grabbed the baby and ran out'
The story of Moshe Tzvi's heroic rescue: Twelve hours after gunmen stormed the Chabad House, Sandra Samuel heard the cries of a small child outside the room in which she had barricaded herself. She opened the door, grabbed a two-year-old old boy and ran outside with another center worker. They are the only ones to have emerged from the Chabad House. "I took the child, I just grabbed the baby and ran out," said Samuel, 44, who has worked as a cook for the center for the last five years.
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29 Cheshvan 5769 (27.11.2008)
The boy, whom she identified as Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, was unharmed - but his blood-soaked pants spoke of the horrors inside. Holzberg is the main Shliach at the Chabad house.
Samuel, who was looking after the boy at a nearby police station, said that as she ran out, she saw four people lying on the floor, apparently "unconscious."
Six Israelis, including two kashrut supervisors, are being held in the building. Yehuda, a relative of one of the two men, said that they likely visited the Chabad house for afternoon and evening prayers.