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A Holocaust¹ survivor² honors the woman who saved his life

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In 1941, Rabbi Philip Lazowski and his family were among the Jews banished⁴ from their village in Poland by the Nazis⁵ and forced to live in a ghetto⁶. He remembers the woman who saved his life.

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DEBBIE ELLIOTT, HOST:

Time now for StoryCorps. In 1941, Rabbi Philip Lazowski and his family were among the Jews banished from their village in Poland by the Nazis and forced to live in a ghetto. Philip got separated from his family. He was just 11 years old. Philip saw the Nazis sending children and the elderly to their deaths, but he noticed they were sparing families with adults who worked, like doctors, tailors and cobblers. Philip, who's now 91, came to StoryCorps with his wife, Ruth, to remember a quick decision that saved his life.

PHILIP LAZOWSKI: I saw a woman standing⁷ with two girls and she was a nurse, so I went over to her and I asked her, would you be kind enough to take me as your son? She said, if they let me live with two children, maybe they'll let me live with three. Hold on to my dress. We survived, and even though I saw her only for 15, 20 minutes, I never forgot her face. I was able to come to United States in 1947. I was 17 years old.

RUTH LAZOWSKI: Can you describe life after that?

P LAZOWSKI: Years later, a fellow got married, and I didn't want to go to the wedding. I didn't have fancy clothes. Also I don't dance, but I went. And sitting at the table, I said, I come from the town of Belzyce (ph). A lady was sitting next to me. She says, you know, a girlfriend told me a story. They saved the boy from Belzyce. and we don't know if he's alive. When she finished telling me the story, I realized that I am the boy. I says, where do they live? And I called the lady that saved me. She picked up and I promised to come to visit her. While there, I noticed the two girls. They were 18, 19 years old and grown up.

R LAZOWSKI: (Laughter) That was me. I was the other girl.

P LAZOWSKI: (Laughter) Yes. Your mother saved my life. I then married you, and that's how our family began. We have been together as husband and wife for 66 years. We had three children, seven grandchildren. So all in all, I am very thankful to be alive. God was good to us.

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ELLIOTT: That was 91 year old Rabbi Philip Lazowski and his wife, 86-year-old Ruth Lazowski, in West Hartford, Conn. This interview will be archived at the Library of Congress.

1 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

2 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

3 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

4 banished   

v.放逐，驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
• He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 ghetto   

n.少数民族聚居区，贫民区

参考例句：

• Racism and crime still flourish in the ghetto.城市贫民区的种族主义和犯罪仍然十分猖獗。
• I saw that achievement as a possible pattern for the entire ghetto.我把获得的成就看作整个黑人区可以仿效的榜样。

7 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。