Toby Knobel Fluek
Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949
Toby Knobel Fluek was born Czernica, Poland, near Lvov. She and her family were driven out by the German invasion and forced into the ghetto in the town of Brody. She survived the Holocaust, came to the United States in 1949 and now lives in New York. Her paintings of her childhood are unique, as they provide not only a chronology of daily life in her village, but also some remarkable Jewish "still life" paintings of objects that are unique as Holocaust memories.
Our Kitchen |
Aron |
Rekindling the Embers |
Going to School |
Red Potatoes |
My Uncle Mordche |
Grocery Shopping |
Baking Challah |
Lighting Sabbath Candles |
The Tallis |
Cleaning Utensils |
Passover Pots |
The Basket With Eggs |
Making Charoses |
Our Seder |
Kreplach |
Shlogn Kapores |
Chanukah |
Woman Carrying Water |
The Samovar |
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