and then they began to blot every trace of him from goldman sachss' records. almost 100 years had passed when i tried to interview members of the sachs family for this book. some professed they didn't even know they were related to the goldmans. others rejected their roots in judaism along with their fall hi tree. family tree. one great grand niece living on sutton place still harbored such ill will against heck ri, that she kept a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings chronicling tidbits of his daily life from the over-the-top wages he paid his domestics to the amount he paid for the yacht he gave albert einstein on his 50th birthday. she also referred to a sighting of henry mar anything a pro- marching in a pro-german parade at the beginning of world war i which she was unable to substantiate. in actuality, henry was relieved to be released and spent his time on other interests dear to his heart. he began to indulge a long-held passion for assembling what was arguably one of the finest small collections of rein sans and early -- renaissance and early flemish