‘TELL THE WORLD’

Survivor’s Holocaust appeal

HIDING IN AN attic in Poland, Toby Levy’s Jewish father tried to stay positive by telling his family the Nazis couldn’t kill them all.

“Somebody has to survive, no way is everybody going to die,” he said. “We have to tell the world.”

Holocaust survivor Levy is now 85 and still telling the world. On Sunday, she shared her terrifying memories of World War II at Temple Emanu-El on E. 65th St., at Fifth Ave., for the Annual Gathering of Remembrance.

Levy’s family hid in a barn for three months starting in 1942 after the Nazi invasion and then stayed in an attic for nearly two years.

“Every time (I) talk about this incident, I can’t help but relive it,” said Levy, an employee of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which organized the speakers for the remembrance. “I still feel hunger.”

She was joined by 36 female Holocaust survivors, who, accompanied by their great-grandchildren, lit candles symbolizing a passing of the torch.

Six survivors from Hungary and Poland lit candles representing the renewal of Jewish life.

In 1944, Soviet soldiers liberated the Levy family.

“None of us could walk and talk. We didn’t cry, we didn’t talk. We just looked at each other, ‘Is it possible?’ ” Levy said.