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Itzchak Belfer was born in Poland in 1923 and grew
up in the Janusz Korczak orphanage in Warsaw. After Warsaw was taken
by the German in the beginning of World War II and the ghetto formed,
Belfer escaped to Russia through the forests of Poland. At
the end of the war Belfer returned to Warsaw and to the reality of
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In 1947,
as an illegal immigrant to Israel, he was deported by the British
to Cyprus. There, Belfer first studied
painting and sculpture with sculptor Ze'ev Ben Zvi, and then painted
in the desolate winter of the prison camps. Upon returning to Israel,
he continued his studies at the Avni Institute of Painting and Sculpture
and spent a further two years studying History of Art. In 1965 he
was accepted as a member of the Artists and Sculptors Association.
Three years later he established and gave painting courses at the
Tel Aviv Municipality. In 1972 Itzchak Belfer became
a lecturer on painting at the Popular University in Tel Aviv.
Major one-man exhibitions
| Ha'aretz Museum: The Museum of
Ethnography and Folklore, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv |
1967
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| Yad Lebanim Museum, Rehovot |
1968
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| Ghetto fighters Museum, Kibbutz
Lohamei Hageta'ot |
1969
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| Besancon Museum, France |
1970
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| Ramat Gan Museum |
1970
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| Museum of the y.l, Magnea Museum,
Berkeley University, San Francisco, USA, ended
1974 |
1971
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| Paris (UNESCO) International
convention on Janusz Korczak. |
1975
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Massuah Museum,
Tel Itzhak
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1977
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| Permanent exhibition and awarded the
Nahum Gutman prize on the subject of |
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| the Holocaust |
1980 |
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| Binyanei Ha'uma, Jerusalem, world
convention of Holocaust survivors |
1981
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| Haifa Theater |
1984
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West Germany, joint exhibition with Aba
Foyvel, "Pictures from Detention Camps
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| and the Ghetto" |
1988
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| Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem |
1992
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| Yad Vashem Museum, Givatayim |
1995
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| Wuppertal University - Gottigen school,
art academy of Berlin, Germany |
1998
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| Bernard gallery, Tel Aviv |
2000
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| Ein Harod - Haaim Shtorman's
house |
2003
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| Publications |
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| collected paintings and drawings,
"the holocaust book" |
1971
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| collected paintings and drawings,
"the holocaust book", second
edition |
1995
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| Publication of the book "August
5, 1942" |
2000
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| (In memory of the final
journey of Janusz Korczak, Stepha Vilchinska |
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| and the children murdered
at Treblinka) |
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