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Tziporah Sassoon is seen in this undated photo.Tziporah Sassoon is seen in this undated photo.
The Sassoon family.The Sassoon family.

JERUSALEM — The sole surviving sibling of the seven children killed in a horrific Brooklyn blaze has been desperately asking if her brothers and sisters are OK, their father said Monday.

“She doesn’t know [they’re all dead]. She tried to ask me. She wanted to know more about [them], but then she came in and out of consciousness,” said shattered dad Gabriel Sassoon as he sat shiva in Jerusalem after burying the children.

“I told her everything was taken care of, that her mother was in a separate hospital and was being taken care of,” he said of surviving daughter Tziporah, 15.

“I’m going to New York on Wednesday so I can be near to her. I have to be there for her.”

Sassoon spoke while sitting on the floor of a home down the street from the house he was building to bring his family back to before Saturday’s horrific fire.

Tziporah remains in critical condition in the burn unit at Staten Island North hospital, while her mother, Gayle Sassoon, 45, is clinging to life at Jacobi Medical Center.

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The coffins of Sassoon family members are being brought to a plane en route to Israel.
The seven Sassoon family coffins are brought to a plane headed to Israel, where they will be buried in Jerusalem’s Har HaMenuchot Cemetery.Reuven Fenton
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Gayle Sassoon (left) with her husband and family.
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Gabriel Sassoon, left, is assisted during a eulogy for his seven children who died when a fire broke out in their home, on Sunday, March 22, in Brooklyn.
Gabriel Sassoon (left) is assisted during services for his seven children who died when a fire broke out in their home, on March 22 in Brooklyn.John Roca
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Gabriel Sassoon, center, at a eulogy for his children.
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Gabriel Sassoon, center, is escorted away during the eulogy service for his children.
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People fill the streets near a Brooklyn chapel for a eulogy in remembrance of the seven siblings who perished in a fire on Saturday night, on Sunday, March 22.
People fill the streets near a Brooklyn chapel for a eulogy in remembrance of the seven siblings who perished in a fire, on March 22.Edmund J. Coppa
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Mourners gather outside of Shomrei Hadas Chapels before a funeral service for the seven siblings killed in a house fire, Sunday, March 22, 2015, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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People hold a candlelight vigil for the Sassoon family outside of their burned home.
People hold a vigil for the Sassoon family outside their burned home.Paul Martinka
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A flower arrangement rests at the scene of the fire.
A flower arrangement rests at the scene of the fire. Getty Images
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Mayor Bill de Blasio embraces New York's Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro outside the house fire
Mayor Bill de Blasio embraces New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro outside the scene of the house fire.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio gestures as he exits from the scene.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio tours the home where a seven children perished in a fire.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tours the home where seven children perished in a fire.John M. Mantel
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A police officer walks at the scene of the fire.
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