In the quiet hours when Jerusalem was waiting for the dawn, the oldest child of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, of blessed memory, joined his martyred parents in the World to Come.
Four-year-old Dov Ber Holtzberg died in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday after a long, serious illness in a Jerusalem hospital. The funeral was held at midday in Jerusalem.
Dov Ber was to be laid to rest in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, just one day before the end of the 30-day mourning period for his parents.
The Holtzbergs were slaughtered along with four other Jews in an Islamist terrorist attack on their Chabad House in Mumbai, India. Nearly 200 other people were murdered and hundreds of others were wounded in the three-day killing spree by 10 terrorists which struck the city formerly known as Bombay.
The ceremony to set the marker stones on to graves of the Holtzberg couple is scheduled to be held on Thursday, the day after the conclusion of the mourning period.
Dov Ber's sole surviving immediate family member is his little brother, Moishe Tzvi, who escaped the Mumbai massacre in the arms of his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel.