The Voice Of Survival

New York Jewish Week, The, August, 2008 by Brown, Elicia

Raizel, then 9, lay very still on her stomach, aware that these might be her last moments, here in this patch of Polish potatoes. It was the summer of 1942, and the German Shepherds were sniffing and barking in the night air, hunting for hidden Jews.

But just when Raizel noticed a dog a few feet away, she heard the short, piercing blasts of the Germans whistling for their animals to return. It was the first of many miracles that Raizel Posalski, 75, recalls saved her life in the Holocaust that killed her father, mother, little brother Yosef- and perhaps, though still not certainly, her little sister, Yosef's twin, Nacha.

We are sitting in the cool quiet of Raizel's airconditioned dining room in Riverdale, as Raizel - with just a drop of orange juice and seltzer for...

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