(gentle atmospheric music continues) - [Katherine] The more that we looked at the paintings, the more that we kind of identified architectures and flora and fauna, the more that we realized almost all of these paintings are of childhood memories from the Ukraine, maybe from Crimea.

- [Gary] George was a memory painter, and he painted his recollections of growing up in Kiev.

(haunting ambient music) His father was an attorney.

They were cultured people.

He plays instruments.

He writes, and he paints.

After World War II, he lost his family.

His wife divorced him while he was in a concentration camp, but what we're learning now is that it might have been to save him, because his return could have gotten him killed under Stalin's regime.

He comes to Philadelphia, works on the railroad, washing dishes, cleaning cars, belongs to the Tolstoy Foundation.

One of his hobbies when he had time off was to get on a Greyhound bus and go anywhere with this little camera, film through the windows, walk through gardens.

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