Lazowsky, Rabbi Philip

Folder contains: Oral history transcript relating details of Lazowski's escape from the Holocaust; news clippings from the Hartford Jewish Ledger relating work of Lazowski; typed piography of Lazowski's membershps and occupations with news clipping attached; photocopies of news clippings; flyer announcing April 13 1977 meeting of Jewish Historical Society, with nes clipping attached.

Interview subjects include: Lazowski's early life in Galitzia in Poland (now in Belarus); his father's occupation as a buyer and seller of fish; his study under a tutor; The seizure of the territory by the Russians; the Russian threat of deporting his mother to Siberia because she was too wealthy; World War II and the capture of the territory by the Germans; the German treatment of the village, including burning the houses, shooting the rabbis and the teachers, forcing everyone into a ghetto, and forcing the children into a movie theater; Lazowski's escape from being selected for the labor camp by posing as the child of Ruth Rabinowitz's mother; Hiding in a cave; escaping from town; immigration to the United States; finding the Rabinowitz family in Hartford; studying to be a rabbi.