Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of one etching, eleven drawings and six paintings created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) after the war based upon his experiences during the Holocaust in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz I, and Blechhammer concentration camps from August 1944 until his liberation soon after a death march on January 25, 1945.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1987, 1988, 1993, and 1998 by Hildegard Friedman and Miriam Friedman Morris, the wife and daughter of David Friedman.
Browse 18 Items In This Collection
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother helping her sick son in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.1
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: approximately 1944 August
Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a large group of Jews living in an attic in the Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.2
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a woman and 3 children barefoot and hungry on a Łódź Ghetto street
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.3
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical painting by David Friedman of a woman in a brown dress resting on a bed
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.4
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a Jewish man from a suburb of Prague waiting for deportation
Object | Accession Number: 1987.121.1
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: approximately 1941 October
Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Autobiographical drawing by David Friedmann of Jewish prisoners on their way to bury a shot comrade
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.2
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
creation: 1945
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of naked women and children entering the showers at Auschwitz
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.2
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: after 1944 August
Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a man with a Star of David badge eating in a Łódź Ghetto food hall
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.3
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
depiction: Blechhammer, Upper Silesia, Germany (historic); Blachownia Slaska (Poland)
depiction: 1945 January
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children into a mass grave
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.5
creation: Prague (Czech Republic)
creation: approximately 1946-1948
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a starving man eating from a ghetto garbage can
Object | Accession Number: 1998.79.1
creation: St. Louis (Mo.)
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.1
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Etched print created by David Friedman of a man kneeling in despair a few seconds before execution
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.2
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
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