Hendel Lieberman

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Chanoch Hendel Lieberman (29 March 1900 OS - 15 March 1976), born Chanoch Hendel Futerfas, was a Jewish Russian-American artist.

He was born in Pleshchenitsy, Belarus. In 1925 he married Breina Freidman, with whom he had two daughters; all three were killed by a Nazi Einsatzgruppe in 1941, while he was serving in the army.

In 1946 he left the USSR using forged Polish papers; afraid that the KGB would track him down, he changed his name to Lieberman. After short stays in Paris and London, in 1951 he settled in Brooklyn, where he became a devoted follower of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.^{[citation needed]}