Ralph Goodman immediately reached for the .45 on his hip. The 24-year-old American soldier didn’t know what to expect from the approaching middle-aged man wearing a felt hat, one side folded up, and ...

Vecht would customarily emerge from his shabbat afternoon nap to a lounge teaming with people – several of whom he might not know – and say: “I am Aron Vecht, I live here.” Vecht loved nothing more ...

The portrait in question, by Dutch painter Barend Graat Courtesy of Constant Vecht When Constant Vecht flipped through the October 2013 catalog from a Paris-based auction house, lot number three ...