Talmudists. Reichentál became a professor at the School of Applied Arts in 1933 and married Margaret Fleischmann in 1936. Their daughter, Mary, was born two years later. By 1938, his work was included in an exhibition of Slovak works in New York. World War II German troops were stationed in Slovakia beginning in March 1939. For their safety, Reichentàl and his family moved to Hungary. During World War II, Jews were not allowed to work, so the family tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to France with his family. After the German occupation in 1939, they escaped to Budapest, procuring fake identifications (as the Janos family) to escape capture. Finally, in 1945, the Russian army took control from the Germans. Fluent in seven languages, including Russian and German, Reichentál served as a translator for the Russians through the remainder of the war. While his wife and child survived the war, Reichentál's mother, two sisters, and niece were killed in concentration camp. His wife's parents and sister were also killed by the Nazis. Post-war Czechoslovakia Reichenthal's work took on a more powerful tone as he chronicled many of the atrocities of the war. Such works as "The Lone Survivor", "Gas", "The Arrival", and a portfolio of 16 drawings, entitled "Arbeit Macht Frei" depicted the barbarity of the Nazi holocaust. Anti-Semitism was still rife in Czechoslovakia, and when the communists finally came to power, Reichentál was arrested and beaten. He sought over a period of four years to emigrate to the United States. After obtaining a visa, and with funding from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, he brought his family to New York in 1950 on the SS Washington. and was naturalized in 1954. Career in New York In the U.S., Reichentál continued to paint and draw, but was at first unknown there and to earn a living also worked in other artistic realms, such as illustrating comics and fashion drawings under the pseudonyms François Gerome and Ben Ari. His artistic style moved from cubism to abstract modernism, including collages and bright oil paintings. He held a number of exhibitions towards the end of his life, in New York, Miami, Chicago, Austria, Germany, Vienna, Dresdon, Paris, Toronto, and Israel. Reichentál died in New York on April 2, 1971. After his death, his works continued to be sold to collectors and auctioned. He has had posthumous exhibitions in New York and two in Bratislava, in