Refugees, Warsaw Ghetto

The painter Moshe Rynecki was born into a traditional Jewish home in a small town near Siedlice, Poland. He received a yeshiva education before studying art in Warsaw in 1906–1907. He painted familiar scenes from Warsaw Jewish life, both everyday activities and religious holidays and rituals. After the German conquest of Poland, he was forced into the Warsaw ghetto, where he painted this scene of refugees from elsewhere in Poland arriving in the ghetto. He was deported to Maidanek in 1943.