Illegal Slaughter
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- Mrozewski. Stefan
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Black ink on white paper. Night scene. Five men are taking part in the slaughter of a horse. One man in the foreground is holding a lantern up to illuminate the scene, and holding a rope tied to a harness around the horse's nech. A second man stands on a wooden box, holding a long knife up to the horse's throat. The other three men stand to the left of the scene, observing. Food allotments rationed to the ghetto were not sufficient to sustain life and people had to rely on other sources to feed themselves, such as this illegal slaughter, Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.07
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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