By COLlive reporter
Tibor Spitz, a Jewish artist of Slovak origin and a Holocaust survivor, was the guest speaker at a community evening organized by Chabad and Congregation Ezrath Israel of Ellenville, NY, on Sunday.
Spitz, a gifted individual who resides with his equally talented wife Noemi in Kingston, NY, related his unbelievable story including important details of the Holocaust through his magnificent paintings, clay and wood art work.
Born in a little town Dolny Kubin in the high mountains of northern Slovakia, that time part of Czechoslovakia, his father was a cantor for the Jewish community and mother was a teacher.
He survived Holocaust at 15, studied chemistry in Prague and in 1968 escaped to the West to live in Canada and later in the USA. For 30 years he worked in the glass industry and spent another 14 years working as a scientist developing hi-tech magnetic recording heads for computers and VCRs.
But he found that suppressed memories of his tragic childhood required an outlet only art could fully provide. The creative artistic environment in both Kingston and nearby Woodstock, NY gradually turned him into a professional artist.
Besides initial hounding faces and figurative scenes associated with Holocaust, Judaism and Jewish mystical teachings Kabbalah, he also added fishing scenes, musicians, horses, still-life and landscapes.
Today he travels all over relating his story through art and feels it is extremely imperative to educate younger generations about the atrocities of the dark past and at Ellenville war veterans and Holocaust survivors came to listen.
how do we get in touch if we want to hire him for chabad house event
[email protected]
845 338 9214
where is the rest of his speech?
Amazing