Prince Michael pledges $1,00,000 aid to Narmiam House

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Prince Michael, visited the five-storey building, which stands as a mute testimony to the two-day 26/11 terror siege, with its rooms and passageways pockmarked by hundreds of bullet and grenade marks.

Queen Elizabeth's first cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, today pledged a donation of $1,00,000 in rebuilding part of the Nariman House, one of the terror sites of November 26 attack, during his visit to the House here in south Mumbai.

"I along with other donors from London pledge donation of $1,00,000 in restoring part of Chabad House including the Kitchen. We will continue to offer every kind of help," Prince Michael said.

Prince Michael, visited the five-storey building, which stands as a mute testimony to the two-day terror siege, with its rooms and passageways pockmarked by hundreds of bullet and grenade marks.

"The destruction caused by terrorists is immense. I am saddened to see all this. I feel deep sorrow for what happened here," he said adding he was touched on knowing about the how the nanny Sandra saved baby Moshe.

"Terrorism affects everybody, it is indiscriminate violence," he added. Nariman House, a Jewish outreach center run by Chabad-Lubavitch Movement having an educational center and a synagogue, offered drug prevention services and stay to the people of their faith.

The House was run by Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivika, who had come to Mumbai in 2003 to serve the local Jewish community. Both of them along with four others became victims of terror at the hands of two Pakistani terrorists.