His artwork can be found in nearly 500 private collections and museums throughout the world, including the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
In 1956, two months after the Hungarian Revolution, he fled the country with his wife and two children because he feared a return of anti-Semitic sentiment.
[1] They emigrated to the United States in 1957, where he worked as a commercial artist in Miami for 16 years until moving to Columbus, Ohio, to pursue sculpture full-time.
[6] Tibor has stated that be believes he did not lose his life during the Holocaust and World War II so he could eventually create art to capture and evoke human emotions.
His most recent sculpture, "Zahor" (meaning "Remembrance" in Hebrew) was commissioned for Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio, where he is a member.
[12] The 9-foot-tall bronze sculpture shows German soldiers herding victims into a concentration camp gas chamber while above a survivor climbs out of the smokestack holding an Israeli flag.
The work also features a poem written by American poet Emma Lazarus predicting the establishment of the State of Israel.