. >> when you think of the meera cole of something like this happening that somebody actually handed off hundreds of paintings, and then how along the way do you discover these paintings? did someone actually preserve them along the way? >> these are such great questions, because in this case this young woman died at the age of 25 and her father and stepmother who sent her to survive in the south of france, they survived. they went looking for her after the war. they discovered all that remained were these paintings. so they brought them -- they were living in answer to him at the time. they travel very infrequently. there were very fortunate to come to san francisco. i think this is -- the works of art are so compelling and so powerful that they really deserve attention from the entire community, not just as a holocaust story but as a young woman discovering who she is in her own voice as an artist. >> it seems in some way it begs the question that this is what she was producing at such a young age, what might her position in the world of art have become if she had lived a life or y