A son recounts his mother’s life – FREE
Felice’s Worlds : From the Holocaust to the Halls of Modern Art
Henry Massie
5 star historical nonfiction/biography
From the author:
I had listened to my mother’s tales all my life and wanted to share them. She was an escapee from a Polish shtetl wiped out by the Nazis, a high-school political activist in Lithuania, a university student in France who lost her first love tragically, a partisan for Arab-Jewish co-existence in Palestine who was caught in the first intifada in 1936, and a penniless arrival to America in 1937.
Yet when she died she had amassed one of the most important collections of Modern Art in the world and was a university lecturer on the subject.
In writing about her, I understood for the first time how her experience of losing loved ones to the Nazis had been passed on to her American son.
