Stories Survive: Harry Tabak

Arie Tabak was born in Sighet, Romania in 1922. He found work as a printer in Budapest in 1943 until he was forced to escape home only to find himself living in a ghetto with his sister and two children. They were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 where his sister and children were murdered. He eventually ended up in Ebensee Labor Camp in Austria where he was freed in May 1945. After a few years in a German DP camp he went to Israel in 1948 with his wife, Helen, and son, Chaim. The family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1960 and Arie passed away in 2005 and Helen passed away in 2006.

Arie’s son, Harry Tabak will discuss his father’s experiences during the Holocaust, and share about the family’s lives in Israel through art he made while visiting his brother in the country in 1974.