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Alfred Tibor (born February 10, 1920 age 95) is a Holocaust survivor and sculptor. His artwork can be found in nearly 500 private collections and museums throughout the world, including the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. == Life == Tibor was born Alfred Goldstein in Konyar, Hungary in 1920. Denied formal training because of his Jewish faith, he taught himself gymnastics in high school. "The more they were pushing me down and degrading me, the more I wanted to be better than others," he said. "I wanted to prove it: I am not a dirty Jew; I am a boy, and I have ambition." Tibor eventually qualified for the Hungarian team for the 1936 Summer Olympics, but when he went to register for the team, he was denied when the team discovered he was Jewish. Tibor was not allowed to compete as a member of the Hungarian team in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.〔(Life of the Mind Presents Alfred Tibor ), Ohio Dominican University, October 14, 2003, accessed May 10, 2006.〕 "I was kicked out. I was kicked out because I was Jewish," Tibor said. "That time, the sky was falling apart."〔"Man who survived Holocaust learned how to overcome hate" by Jennifer Nesbitt, The Newark Advocate, Mar 23, 2007.〕 In 1940 Tibor was forced to be a slave laborer for a Hungarian Army labor battalion. Eventually he was captured by the Soviet Army and spent six years as a prisoner in a Siberian prison camp. Of the 273 men in his labor battalion sent to the prisoner-of-war camp, he was only one of two to survive.〔(Ohio Department of Aging ) Golden Buckeye 2005 Hall of Fame inductees biography, accessed May 10, 2006〕 Tibor credits "luck and determination" for his survival.〔(Alfred Tibor's personal site, ) "History of a Holocaust Survivor," accessed Feb. 11, 2007.〕 Tibor was freed from the camp in 1947. It was then that he discovered that, of his family of 37 immediate people (and 82 other relatives),〔("Two events will recall Holocaust" ) by Felix Hoover, ''The Columbus Dispatch'', April 21, 2006, accessed May 10, 2006.〕 only he and his brother Andre had survived both the Holocaust and the war. Tibor and his brother changed their last name to Tibor to honor their older brother, Tibor Goldstein, who was executed in another prison camp.〔 Tibor moved to Budapest and worked for nine years as a government exhibition designer. 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.〔 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. On January 25, 2005, a deer burst through Tibor's living-room window and attacked him, resulting in his hospitalization.〔() CNN transcript January 26, 2005, accessed February 18, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Tibor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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