Toby Fluek (1926–2011)
Auteur de Memories Of My Life In A Polish Village, 1930-1949
A propos de l'auteur
Å’uvres de Toby Fluek
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1926-02-20
- Date de décès
- 2011-06-03
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Poland (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Czernica, Poland
- Lieu du décès
- West Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Bronx, New York, USA - Professions
- painter
artist
memoirist
Holocaust survivor - Courte biographie
- Tonia "Toby" Fluek, née Knobel, was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Czernica, Poland. Her father Naftali Knobel was a potato and wheat farmer. She started to paint as a child, encouraged by her mother Genia to paint the farm. Their region was occupied first by Russia and then by Nazi Germany in World War II. In the fall of 1942, the family was forced into a Jewish ghetto in nearby Brody. Toby and her older sister Surcie fled the ghetto under cover of darkness and returned to Czernica, where they hid in the woods and survived with the help of some of their former neighbors. Surcie returned to the ghetto to encourage her parents to flee and took her mother out with her. Surcie was later separated from Toby and Genia and never seen again. Toby's father and her two other siblings all were killed. After the war, Toby and her mother were sent to multiple displaced persons camps, eventually making their way to Bad Wörishofen, Germany, where Genia was treated in the hospital while the pair waited to immigrate to the USA. During this time, Toby met and married her husband Max Fluek. They moved to the USA in 1949 and settled in the Bronx, New York, where their daughter Lillian was born. Toby continued with her artwork, despite not having taken a class until her 30s. Her body of work included paintings, charcoals, sketches, and drawings that largely drew on her memories of her childhood, before the start of World War II. She published two memoirs, Memories of My Life in a Polish Village (1990) and Passover As I Remember It (1994), both with her own illustrations. Toby also was featured in the 1981 documentary film Image Before My Eyes, and the 2008 film, Toby’s Sunshine: The Life and Art of Holocaust Survivor Toby Knobel Fluek. Her art collection was donated after her death to the Florida Holocaust Museum by her daughter Lilian Fluek Finkler.
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Å’uvres
- 2
- Membres
- 140
- Popularité
- #146,473
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
- Langues
- 2
In the first four chapters Fluek shows her family, Sabbath preparations, how they celebrated holidays and her family's neighbors. The second half of the book details the Russian and consequent German occupation and the eventual liberation. In the years covered here Fluek suffered from hunger, cold, loneliness, fear and by the end of the war she lost most of her family. The style of writing and painting did not change form the first half, thus the dissimilarity of the subject matter is providing sharp contrast. If you are ready to encounter the author's personal recollection of the Shoah do not skip the second half of the book. But, if you only want to submerge to Jewish life in a small Polish village life I recommend reading and looking through the first half.… (plus d'informations)