The courts relegated her to death. But Avrohom Fixsler kept battling to give his daughter another day
Photos: Elchanan Kotler
There’s a small album that Avrohom Fixsler has kept close at hand for the past few weeks.
From between the cream-leather covers, a young chassidishe family looks out at the world. The proud mother stands behind her eight-year-old son, who’s all sweetness and perfectly curled peyos. The father holds a daintily-dressed toddler on his knee. Only a hint of sadness touches both parents’ smiles as they preserve this family moment.
It’s those smiles that make the glossy photos so painful.
Because the toddler is two-year-old Alta Fixsler, the little girl who became a household name thanks to her parents’ desperate struggle to keep her alive in the face of a remorseless British medical establishment. The smiles mark some of the only moments of togetherness that the family ever experienced. And the images — taken just before her ventilator tubes were removed — are a visual diary of the little girl’s last hours on earth.
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