I was born in Hungary in 1926 to a religious Jewish family. My parents raised us to follow the values of Humanism - to love and respect our fellow man as well as nature. In 1942, my father died and I had to go to work in order to support my family. I did so, yet it did not prevent me from continuing my studies.

In 1944, with the German invasion into Hungary, we were taken to concentration camps in Austria. We were released on May 8, 1945, when the Americans came. As free men and women, we went back to Hungary and all we could see was destruction.

In 1946, my mother, my sisters, my little brother and myself decided to make ‘Aliya’. In 1948 we were fighting for the establishment of Israel, which was declared a state and became our home. I joined the Israeli Merchant Marine as a sailor, and worked there for many years as Master Mariner (Captain) until my retirement in 1992, when I started with wood sculpturing, which was probably dormant in me all these years.

During the fifties and sixties, in many cities around the world – London, New-York, Boston, Hamburg, Barcelona, New-Orleans, Havana – I visited exhibitions, galeries and museums, among them the British Museum, Louvre, Natural History Museum and others. The memories from these visits inspires my works.

As a child, I loved to draw and look at paintings, sculptures and buildings, when I had the time for it, which was pretty scarce. In my mind I was drawing the history of the fathers, the sons, Moses and the colorful stories of the bible. During long and lonely hours, surrounded by the stillness of the Mighty Blue, whether the Mediterranean, the Atlantic or the Pacific, I was sitting and watching the whispering waters and the foamy waves. Sometimes I observed the clouds above that appeared in different forms – a person, an animal, a building or any other pattern abundant within the realms of
animacy and inanimacy.

Thank God for giving me the opportunity to materialize my thoughts, dreams and memories and sculpture forms, shapes and figures from wood.