Moshe Holtzberg's nanny describes escape
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"Even today, I am thinking I should have sent the baby and done something for the rabbi and his wife," she told CNN.
...Shortly after she was filmed by cameras fleeing the building whilst clutching the boy in her arms, she told police that she had seen some of the hostages lying on the floor unconscious as she made her escape. Speaking to CNN, she described how she just narrowly avoided the same fate.
"I saw one man was shooting at me - he shot at me," she said while describing the events of the first day. "I closed the door."
"I was in the storeroom hiding like a coward," she continued. "Until the next morning, when the baby called me. Moshe, when I went to him, he was next to his Ima (mother) standing and crying my name. That's what I know."
"My first thought was for the baby," Samuel said. "But then I saw my rabbi and his wife, I thought…even today I am thinking I should have sent the baby and done something for the rabbi and his wife, but…"
Speaking specifically about how she managed to flee from the building unnoticed with the boy, she said that it was only possible because the baby was quiet and didn't draw the attention of the terrorists.
"When I picked him up he was quiet, that's why I could bring him out," Samuel said. "If somebody else was there maybe he would have made a racket, but just because it was me and he's been since a baby in my arms…"
She said that she wasn't scared as she started to run, and that the only thought was that she and Moshe get out safe.
"I was like…just take the baby and run," she said. "Frankly, I don't even know what I was thinking. I just picked up the baby and I ran, and that other worker was with me, Jackie, and we ran. Like mad we just ran."
"When I hear gunshots, it's not like one or two, it's like hundreds of gunshots. 10, 20 grenades, bombs in the Chabad, so…I don't think of fear," she recalled. "Does anyone think of dying at that moment when a small, precious baby's…no."
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She was very brave and did the right thing. She was able to make a get away because the terrorist did not have enough people to control the building. It is likely that there were only two and they could not be everywhere. It is another example of the limitation of their strategy. Despite its limits they were able to cause significant destruction and death. Fortunately Moshe and Sandra were able to escape
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