Grandfather's New Life in Paris

Grandfather's New Life in Paris

Holocaust Survivors

Edward Francell

Black Sheep of the Family

"happily ever after until World War II."

"He was sort of a playboy kind. He wasn’t [a] very big entrepreneur, but you might call him the black sheep of the family. His first wife had died in New York, and he wanted to see Europe and he wanted to travel the world, so he said, 'I’m going to Paris,' and there, he met a French woman, who is my grandmother, and they lived there, more or less, happily ever after until World War Two."

ca. 1900