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Friday, May 11, 2001 | return to: international
Camp liberator, war artist, dies
by TORONTO (JTA) -- Aba Bayefsky, the distinguished Canadian artist whose Holocaust paintings are displayed at the Canadian War Mus, After Bergen-Belsen was liberated in May 1945, Bayefsky -- a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force and an official Canadian war
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"I saw pits with thousands of dead bodies piled in them," he recalled in 1998. "They were just lumps, that's all. They had trucks backing up to these pits and they were just throwing them in. It had a profound impact on me."
Bayefsky often utilized biblical and talmudic themes in his work and published a portfolio of paintings titled "Tales From The Talmud."
He is survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren.
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