Chasing Portraits

The memoir of one woman’s emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II.   Moshe Rynecki’s body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his great-granddaughter Elizabeth who sought to rediscover his legacy, setting upon a journey to seek out what had been lost but never forgotten…   The everyday lives of the Polish-Jewish community depicted in Moshe Rynecki’s painting