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Toby Levy, Holocaust survivor, races time to share her story of surviving Nazi genocide

At age 89, Holocaust survivor Toby Levy knows her time is limited.

That’s why she spent the better part of an hour this week explaining her story of surviving the Nazi occupation of Poland as a young Jewish girl for whom discovery would have meant death.

Ms. Levy today lives in New York City, an ocean and a lifetime removed from the town of Chodorow — then a part of Poland, now Ukraine — where she and her family hid during the darkest days of the Second World War.

Her family was sheltered in a barn by a Gentile neighbor and at one point used a bucket to dig out crawl spaces in the dirt floor to hide when officials came calling.