In 1929, Tibor Spitz was born in a small town called Dolný Kubín in the high mountains of northern Slovakia, that time part of Czechoslovakia. His father was a cantor for the Jewish community and mother was a teacher. He survived Holocaust at age 15, studied chemistry in Prague and in 1968 escaped to the West to live in Canada and later in the United States. After his career as a scientist, he became a professional artist and lecturer on Holocaust.