How did the paintings survive the Holocaust?
In the years after the Second World War, George J. Rynecki, Moshe Rynecki’s son, wrote about his memories of the war. The following is an excerpt from George’s memoir. This explains how some of his father’s paintings survived the war: This is how my father attempted to save his paintings through the Second World War. The Germans were already in Warsaw. He packed the canvases and paper paintings into bundles. Some which were framed he took out. Some canvases he had to roll into scrolls. He then divided the parcels and entrusted them to 10 Polish, so called, friends. He gave me a list, my sister one, and of course, my mother knew also where the paintings did go. My father didn’t live through the war. He was deported to Majdanek in 1943 by German gestapo and murdered. My sister was murdered in 1943 in Warsaw. I was after the war in Italy. My mother was the one who with the help of a cousin of mine, Sophie Binstock, found [the paintings] in Prague in a cellar across the river Vistula from
