Death Stalks the Streets

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Creator

Mrozewski, Stefan

Dates

[ca. 1954-1956] (indexed as 1954–1956)

Level

item

Extent

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

Scope & content

Black ink on white paper. Outdoor scene. Two men carry a body towards a cart loaded with corpses. On right, a woman cries and holds her head in her hands. Two young girls cling to her. Another naked corpse lies in foreground. In the background one can see buildings, onlookers and other figures, and the ghetto walls. Print makes reference to high number of people dying in the ghetto because of malnutrition, forced labour and epidemics. 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.

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BicycleCrowdGirlJewish CommunityManPrintStreetStreetscapeWagonWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

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