i would like to reenter issued to howard freedman, director of the jewish community library and introduce you to elizabeth, her book has recently been released. welcome. welcome back , howard. elizabeth, chasing portraits, what is that about? >> my great-grandfather was a painter in warsaw in the interwar period and he painted the joe -- polish-jewish community and he was a prolific artist. after the war he had died in the war and my parents, my father and his parents were survivors and after the war, brought the surviving paintings with them to the united states eventually. i grew up surrounded by the paintings but not knowing much about what happened. chasing portraits was my quest to find out what happened to my great-grandfather and to discover what happened to the lost and missing pieces of his original art collection. >> finding things that were once lost is such a complex layer of exploration. to ask you this, do you by chance know where the paintings were in the interim before he refound them? >> an excellent question. in the early days of the second world war my great-grandfather