Toby Fluek (née Knobel; 20 February 1926 – 3 June 2011) was a Jewish artist born in Poland who survived the Holocaust by avoiding capture by the Nazis before emigrating to the United States after World War II.
After settling in New York in 1949, Fluek began her career as an artist, painting and illustrating her memories of life before, during, and after the Nazi invasion.
Fluek and her siblings were briefly jailed for her father's inability to comply with Nazi demands for wheat crops from the Jewish farmers.
Fluek and her older sister, Surcie, fled the ghetto under cover of darkness and returned to Czernica, where they survived by hiding in the woods and with the help of their former neighbors.
Fluek's other sister, Lajcie, was sick with typhoid, her older brother Aron, was taken to a work camp, while her father chose to remain in the ghetto in hiding.
Fluek met and married her husband, Abraham, in the DP camp before relocating to the Bronx, New York, in December 1949.
The photographs, including many of herself and some from a trip to Poland to document rural village life, are contained in the artist's personal archive and now reside at the Florida Holocaust Museum in their permanent collection.