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Physical Description: Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.

Physical Description: Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.

Notes: Black ink on white paper. Indoor night scene showing a wedding. The couple is standing under a chuppah held by two men, and a woman is holding up a lit menorah in front of them provide light. The bride wears a veil, the groom wears a kippa. A rabbi stands behind the couple, reading from a Torah. Other onlookers are shown in background. 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.