By all accounts, Rabbi Mayer Moskowitz — a Holocaust survivor and beloved teacher at the Upper East Side’s Ramaz School, who died on Nov. 11 at 98 — led an incredible and full life.

“This was not one life,” Rabbi Joshua Bakst, a colleague at Ramaz, where Moskowitz worked for 53 years, told the New York Jewish Week. “This was 17 lives, and he lived every one of them well and without giving up the others.”

Moskowitz’s long, cross-continental journey, which included a childhood escape from the Nazis, an illegal immigration by boat to British-controlled Palestine and, eventually, to New York, where he reunited with his mother, whom he long thought dead. At 20, he built his life anew on American soil, where he worked for decades as a rabbi, a teacher, school principal and a director of Camp M

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