“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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