Boris

Boris was born in 1942 in Samarkand

Saktsier was born in Samarkand in 1942 and grew up in Kishinev, Moldova, then part of the Soviet Union. His father was the Yiddish poet Motl Saktsier, and his mother was an actress in the Jewish theater.

He studied painting and sculpture at the art seminar of a Kishinev high school from 1956 to 1960. He then studied at the Repin Academy of Art in Leningrad from 1963 to 1969.

He took part in exhibitions across Moldova from 1960 to 1972. In 1970 he made a memorial in Kishinev for soldiers killed in World War II. In 1972 he immigrated to Israel and took a Hebrew first name.

In 1977 he won a competition for a memorial to Janusz Korczak, and in 1978 he made the monument to Korczak and his students that stands at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He made a similar sculpture in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. Since 1980 he has taught sculpture and shown his work in Europe, Russia and Israel.

In 1986 he opened a foundry in Rishon LeZion with sculptor Daniel Bahrir. From 1987 he lived in the artists' village of Sa-Nur in northern Samaria, until it was evacuated and destroyed in the disengagement plan.