Mauritius Odyssey Refugees Slobodarna Voyage under the Panama flag Defense Regulations Holy Land Deportation British Prison Fritz Haendel Fritz (Bedrich) Haendel
Fritz was an intellectual and an artist. He had a remarkable sense of humor which one can see in his drawings. (Johannan Haendel)Fritz was a bit strange – he was a genius. And geniuses always verge on the abnormal. (Uri Spitzer)
Fritz and I, among other things, made toys from wooden crates: all kinds of hand-painted carved wooden animals on wheels, giraffes, elephants, etc. Chinese tradesmen had bought them from us and sold them in their shops and we’d made quite a good profit. (Beda Mayer)
Everything that fell into Fritz’s hands became alive. Fritz made genuine, unique things. If it was a cock, it had to be a real cock. (Uri Spitzer)
Good taste is the most abstract of all things, and nothing in connection with it can be formulated into rules. I think, everything should be natural (not naturalistic) though it shall be the true expression of the thing the would-be-Artist wishes to express, and the teacher should try to encourage his individual manner and technique. (Fritz Haendel, 8th Febr. 1943)
Fritz’s weapon for dealing with the idiocy of British colonial officialdom was a pencil. He could sum the whole thing up in a few pencil strokes and produce a cartoon any top newspaper would be proud of. (Beda Mayer)