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After the Whenever you’re feeling good and hungry it’s skyline time 2023 shirt besides I will buy this war, Green encountered Jews who no longer wanted to be Jewish. “They said to me, ‘When G-d could wipe off all my family, I don’t want to be Jewish anymore,” she says. But Green, who had two children in Poland after the war, finally arrived in New York in 1960, where she began a new life with her husband and went on to have additional children. “I tried to hold my corner [for Jewish values],” says Green, and she has been successful: To this day, she still lights the menorah. Toby LevyToby Levy, 89, talks to Toledano and me as if we have been friends forever. There is no one who wants to experience the world more than Levy. Back in January of 2021, she wrote an article for The New York Times about grappling with the isolation of COVID-19 and how she yearned to break free from the confines of the pandemic. Levy was born in Khodoriv, in the Lviv district of western Ukraine, in 1933. Her family was religious, and her father owned a textile shop. When they felt the threat of the Nazi invasion (Levy’s grandfather was shot in their kitchen), they found a trusted Ukrainian woman, Stefania Struk, who agreed to hide Levy’s remaining family, including her parents and sister; her uncle, aunt, and their two children; and her grandmother. For two years, the family of nine would sleep and eat in the corner of a hayloft in the back of Struk’s house. Struk did not share the secret with her children or accept any payment. (Struk’s husband had been sent to the Russian army.) “I always say that [Stefania] was my angel that watched over me,” says Levy. The family survived on potatoes and bread that Struk would bring. At one point, they were discovered by Stefania’s son, Tadeusz, who helped to build a larger space for them in the hayloft. “We didn’t have to squeeze [anymore]. We each could turn at night,” Levy says. “He cut out the panel in the wall for us children so we could look out and see the world. That’s what I used to see the whole day—the children playing games. The minute I got out, I tried to imitate the games that I watched the kids play.”
In the Whenever you’re feeling good and hungry it’s skyline time 2023 shirt besides I will buy this town of 5,000 where Levy hid, she recalls that three Ukrainian families hid Jews. “We would not have made it another year,” Levy says. “We would have died from starvation or someone would have found us.” Levy considers her survival a miracle. In 1949, she moved to America and immediately enrolled in school. “I was 16 when I came here. I knew enough to go into fourth grade, but I couldn’t speak English. So I went to night school, and they put me in first grade,” she says. “I said, ‘That’s okay with me. Just give me a bigger chair.’” Eventually, Levy got married and got a job as a bookkeeper. Years later, after the war, Levy visited Ukraine and met a descendant of Struk’s. “I said, ‘I will always remember you and send you money on one condition: that you tell your children what your great-grandmother did during the Second World War. She said, ‘I will. Okay. That’s a deal.’” Stefania’s and Tadeusz’s names are in the database of Yad Vashem’s The Righteous Among the Nations. To this day, Levy has kept her promise and continues to send money to Struk’s great-granddaughter, who now resides in Spain. Levy still lights candles for Hanukkah and has always lit Shabbat candles every Friday night. She made Toledano and me Shabbat dinner and told us a story of marking Passover while in hiding. Struk would bring the family bread, but her father refused to eat it during the days when Jews do not traditionally eat leavened bread. “In hiding, he showed me who he is,” Levy says. “My father had no conflicts with faith.” For Levy, the world remains boundless, and her thirst for faith—as well as for life—is still strong.

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