Toby
Levy

Toby Levy

Toby Levy was born in 1933 in Chodorow, near Lvov, Poland, and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. In the spring of 1941, the German army invaded Soviet-occupied Poland, and soon after, Jews were forced into ghettos. By the fall of 1942, Toby and her family went into hiding. They were taken in by a courageous Polish woman — a former customer at her father’s fabric shop — who concealed them in a barn for nearly two years. In June 1944, the Red Army liberated the area. Toby and her family immigrated to the United States in 1949, rebuilding their lives in freedom. Today, Toby shares her story as a powerful witness to history — a tale of resilience, survival, and the quiet heroism of those who chose humanity in the darkest of times. Now in her 90s, she speaks to students across the country, warning of the dangers of unchecked hatred and the resurgence of antisemitism — not from the pages of the past, but in the very city she calls home. [...+]

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« He picks her from the steps, holds her in one hand, takes his pistol, shoot her. Like she's not a child, she's not a human. »
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« She was the angel between the Ukrainian and us. »
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« History tells you that it repeats itself in a different shape or form. »

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