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News Highlights

My KQED Perspective piece: Living with ADHD.

“Part Woman in Gold and part family home movie, with shades of Everything Is Illuminated and Antiques Roadshow, the documentary Chasing Portraits is both funnier and deeper than even its compelling premise suggests.” – LA Weekly

Review: ‘Chasing Portraits’ director pursues her great-grandfather’s art lost in Holocaust – LA Times

Chasing Portraits’ Review: Seeking Art Lost During the Holocaust – New York Times

‘Chasing Portraits’ Review: The Art of Healing – NonFics

A shadow of the Holocaust hovers over rare, sublime artwork in ‘Chasing Portraits’ -Tallahassee Democrat

Searching for Her Great-Grandfather’s Lost Pictures (The Jewish Chronicle, May 2018)

A ‘Moral Imperative’ to Recover a Lost Art Legacy (New York Times, August 2016)

Blog Interviews and Profiles

Elizabeth Rynecki on Chasing Portraits of pre-Holocaust Jewish Poland (Laurel Zuckerman’s Paris Weblog, October 2016)

Q&A with Elizabeth Rynecki (Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, September 2016)

Radio and Podcast Interviews

The Rogue Historian (December 2020)

Warfare of Art and Law (December 2020)

KERA’s Think interview with Krys Boyd (March 2017)

CapRadio Reads (November 2017)

Deerfield Public Library Podcast (October 2017)

The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman (May 2017)

Friday Morning Coffee: Chasing Portraits Author Elizabeth Rynecki on Writer’s Bone (April 2017)

KHSU radio interview: Brenda Starr Welcomes Filmmaker & Archivist Elizabeth Rynecki Discussing The Quest For Her Great-Grandfather’s Lost Art Legacy From Holocaust Poland (listen). 8 September 2014.

Filmed Lectures

Ghetto Fighters’ House – August 2020 Zoom Talk

Chasing Portraits with Elizabeth Rynecki at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. September 2016.