In 1929, Tibor Spitz was born in a small town called Dolný Kubín in the high mountains of northern Slovakia, at that time part of Czechoslovakia.
Spitz was born in a Slovak part of Czechoslovakia that kept changing from democracy to a fascist Nazi regime followed by the Soviet-style communism.
Because of his Jewish origin, between the ages of 10 and 15, he was not allowed to attend public schools and for three years he was doomed to be either murdered on the spot or deported to a death camp in nearby Poland.
In 1968 he was returning to complete his two years assignment in the Cuban glass industry when he and his wife Noemi (during an airplane refueling stop in Canada) escaped to the West.
The Communist country where he lived for two decades would not tolerate it, while political freedoms in the West fully supported his free artistic expression.
Galleries, museums, schools, and colleges as well as cultural, scientific, religious, and public institutions were interested in both his presentations and exhibitions.
[2] In 1997 American art historian Matthew Baigell included his biography and reproduction of his painting in his book "Jewish-American artists and the Holocaust".