UTW 28

Ceshia Burstyn Mendrelawska, 1910 (?) – 1943

Art: 1994
Media: Ink
Framed size, 25 inches H x 34 W [63.5 x 86.3 cm
The frame was a gift of the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle

Mendrelawska was a great-aunt of Seattle resident Anita Graham, who provided the photo used by Segan for the drawing. Mendrelawska is believed to have perished in the Warsaw ghetto during the time of the uprising and liquidation of the ghetto, April-May 1943. The husband of Ceshia survived the Holocaust and lived in Canada in the post-WWII years.

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Ms. Graham's grandmother emigrated from Warsaw to the U.S. in the 1920's and corresponded with all her family, including siblings, back in Warsaw, until that was no longer possible.

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The wings were drawn at the ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, Seattle / Skrzydła zostały opracowane w laboratorium ornitologia, Burke Museum of Natural History, Seattle.