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Moshe Rynecki (Polish: Mojżesz Rynecki, Yiddish: משה רינצקיMosheh Rynetski; 1881–1943) was a Polish-Jewish artist.

He was born in Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland to a religious family. He was one of five surviving children of the eighteen born to his parents.

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Moshe Rynecki () was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek concentration.

Elizabeth's Blog: A Great-Granddaughter's Legacy explores issues of her relationship to Moshe Rynecki and the legacy of his life and art.

The film is about my quest for my great grandfather's lost art legacy.

Elizabeth Rynecki is the great-granddaughter of the late Polish-Jewish artist, Moshe Rynecki (), who perished in the Holocaust.

Thirteen died of assorted childhood illnesses.

Life

Rynecki began drawing at an early age. According to family lore, he used to use chalk, or sometimes paint when he had some, to draw figures on the floor and walls of his home.

According to a memoir written by his son, George, "Not once was he actually beaten for breaking the commandment, 'Thou shalt not create images.'" He once explained his drive to paint to his son.

My great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, was split between affinities: on the one hand, he was a painter of traditional Jewish life in Poland.

He told him, "God gave me talent and I truly don't believe in breaking that natural trend. I simply have to do it. If He wouldn't want me to paint, I wouldn't have that tremendous urge and desire to immortalize on paper or canvas what I see.

I simply am a writer of sorts, instead of words,