Moshe Holzberg cries out "Imma Imma" (Mommy Mommy)

Mumbai (PTI): A Jewish congregation dissolved in tears in a synagogue on Monday at the grief of a two-year-old orphan who cried out for his father -- a Rabbi -- and mother slain by terrorists at Nariman House amid emotional scenes during a memorial service. Two-year-old Moshe dressed in a bright green T-shirt and blue shorts was carried into a synagogue here for a prayer meeting in memory of the six Jews killed in the terror attack that included his parents Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivika. Holding a ball in hand, Moshe who was ironically orphaned on the day of his birthday (November 28) kept looking around, probably wanting to see his parents even as his 44-year-old nanny Sandra Samuel lifted him up in his arms. Hours before little Moshe Holzberg turned the age of two, he was orphaned from both his parents in the Nariman House terror attack. The bodies of his parents, Rabbi Gavreil Holtzberg and wife Rivka, were among the five pulled out of the building at the end of Operation Black Tornado on Friday evening. The Nariman House is the Mumbai headquarters of the Chabad, a Hasidic Jewish movement. Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, the city's envoy for the Chabad community, and his wife were believed to be among those inside. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Sandra Samuel, a cook for the center who had barricaded herself in a room in the house, said she grabbed a toddler whom she identified as Holtzberg's son and fled the building with another person. "I took the child. I just grabbed the baby and ran out," Samuel told Haaretz. "Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed during one of the worst terrorist attacks to strike India in recent memory," the Jewish site chabad.org news said.