Send us a textCover art: 1922 painting by David Friedmann. To learn more, please visit David Friedmann's site, view his 1920s portraits, and more:https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/last_portrait/friedmann.asphttps://www.visitnorman.com/events/testimony-the-life-and-work-of-david-friedmanhttps://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/wall-of-fame/friedmann.htmlhttps://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh_friedmann/?fbclid=IwAR3xrdcUEDhSyMckJDFBEXIPmWAsS8ALOGmtOPdCkMX8uX2nM175CnQ6p9Show Notes:2:20 born in 1893 in Austria-Hungary2:45 Studied with German painter/printmaker Lovis Corinth and German Etcher Hermann Struck 6:40 Lodz Ghetto then Auschwitz11:20 Lodz Ghetto Chronicle header - Lodz Ghetto Bridge sketch12:30 Austrian Writer Oskar Rosenfeld wrote about Friedmann13:40 Jewish Museum in Prague14:00 Auschwitz Museum donation of Polish prisoner portrait18:40 Berlin’s Centrum Judaicum Synagogue exhibited Polish Prisoner sketch 20:30 1943 sketches of hat factory survived23:00 Researcher Eva Wiater located album with 33 colorized drawings at Jewish Historical Institute 37:00 Artwork surfaced in France marked with number that indicates auction 38:50 Buffalo, New York gallery gifted Friedman works 44:00 claimed 800 missing works in restitution claims - 2,000 actually missing48:00 rebuilt life in U.S. - created billboards49:00 Czech exhibition in 1946 - met second wife, Hildegard Taussig 52:52 Holocaust paintings 1945-1946 - Palestine office purchased some - 1947 Palestine tour53:15 During D.C. Jewish Holocaust Survivior’s Conference in 1983, Miriam learned seven are held by Yad Vashem and three are at Holocaust History Museum55:00 Etching by Friedmann dedicated to his violin teacher located 1:04:00 Long Island chess player’s heirs donated some of Friedmann’s chess portraits to Cleveland Public Library1:05:00 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference Panel in Prague 1:07:30 two Holocaust series1:10:00 Sudeten Germans in Western Bohemia's use of Holocaust series for ration cards1:19:00 1962 returned to Holocaust paintings 1:27:00 Drawings of Prague Jewish Community leaders donated to Yad Vashem1:29:00 Album of portraits exchanged between friendsPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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