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Roza Shmeterer
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paintings since 2018
Roza was born on 04/25/1926. She was born in Munkatch, Czechoslovakia to a Hasidic family. Her mother, Tzipora Herman, and father, Moshe Liberman, had seven children. When her father, a Polish citizen, was taken by the Nazis, Roza and her aunt moved together to Budapest to help with the family income. A short while after Roza left, her mother and siblings, who were twins, were taken to Dr. Mangela who conducted horrific experiments. The rest of her family, except her brother who immigrated to Israel, was murdered in the Holocaust. In Budapest, she lived in a ghetto. In May of 1945, the ghetto was released by the Russian army and Roza started a harsh journey back to Munkatch. No one was left from her family there. In Munkatch she married Shimon, who served in the Russian army until that point, and they had two children: Shlomit and Misha. In 1957, they were fired from their jobs, expelled from the Communist Party, and moved to Poland due to their support of the Sinai Operation - which presented itself with the unwillingness to support the defeated Egyptian army. They lived in Poland for two years while waiting for visas to Israel. In October 1959 they immigrated to Israel with their two children. They both worked hard to supply their children with a better future. They spent their lives together in a house in Hadera. When Shimon passed away, Roza moved to live with her daughter and son-in-law in Shoava - where she continues to live in her own residential unit.
Roza was blessed with many creative talents which presented themselves in forms of poetry, handmade work, and, mainly, painting - which became the center of her life in later years. She employs various techniques and began mainly using markers in recent years. It started with the caregiver’s request to paint a doll and continued with classical stories she painted for her great-grandchildren (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Grandpa and the Carrot, etc.). Today, as she approaches age 98, over 1000 of her paintings depict the lives of characters from the past - “family,” according to her definition, in a surrounding of European houses decorated with flowers, birds, fish, and fruit trees. Her paintings contain no remnant of the difficult years of the Holocaust; they contain vitality, colorfulness, optimism, and, in most of them, a Star of David waves with pride.
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