The Zena and Pauline Gatov Gallery at the Alpert JCC presents
Trudie Strobel
A Life in Tapestry

Exhibition: April 1 - May 24

Gallery Hours: Open to the Public

Trudie was 4 when she and her mother were taken from their home by the Nazis and herded over 600 miles to the first Lodz Ghetto and then Labor Camp. Trudie’s mother was an incomparable seamstress. Sewing saved their lives and bought them enough time to see Liberations. However, even after Liberation their persecution didn’t end and they bounced from Displacement Camps to homes for the displaced. Trudie did not speak about her past until in her fifties when her sons were grown and out of the house, the traumas of her childhood camp surged back, and she suffered a complete breakdown. A therapist suggested she attempt to express herself in drawing. She began to draw and soon she began to stitch her drawing. Her stunning tapestries have been on display in museums and synagogues and we are fortunate to have them on display at the Gatov Gallery at Jewish Long Beach.