pick“I started this research in a very unfocused way, looking at it from every possible angle…Really my method was I had no method. (113)
The author‘s great grandfather was a Parisian fine art collector whose apartment was seized by the Nazis in 1942.She pursues her family‘s legacy starting with just a small list of paintings.Her journey send her across Europe to museums,archives,& institutions in an attempt to establish provenance & reclaim 🔽
kspenmoll 🔼 Her family‘s legacy. Her family‘s wartime experience-deportation, resistance fighters,army men, the women in the shadows at home- was never spoken of or shared with succeeding generations. One unexpected discovery leads to a multitude of others. It is up to the author to give voice to their newly mined family history & break the silence. (edited) 3w
