A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family
At 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during WWII. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembers a quick decision that may have saved his life.
When Nazis invaded the Polish town of Bielica, Philip Lazowski and his family were among the Jewish residents who were sent to the Zhetel ghetto during Word War II.
One April morning in 1942, the Lazowski family caught wind that the Nazis were killing Jews in the ghetto, in
