David Friedman(n), 1893–1980, was an accomplished painter, renowned for his portraits drawn from life, and a leading Berlin press artist of the 1920s. Asa refugee in Prague, he produced portraits of the Jewish Community during the Nazi occupation. One of the starkest traumas of the Holocaust—people not only lost their lives, but also traces of their existence. The portraits were evidence of a dynamic Jewish community that had been destroyed.

His daughter Miriam Friedman Morris will discuss finding his lost portraits and the surprising connections she made piecing together the story. As a Holocaust survivor, Friedman fought anti-Semitism and racial hatred through painting the horrors he witnessed in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz to show them to the world.

Refreshments to follow

$5 per person

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Presented by the 2022 Saratoga Jewish Cultural Festival -- Bringing community together!

Open to the public; Registration required for all programs; Vaccination and/or masks required for onsite.

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