U. City's Annual Pet Clinic will be held from 8:30 to 11am Saturday, April 7 at the Heman Park Community Center, 975 Pennsylvania Avenue (between Olive and Vernon).
Pets at least three months old can receive one-year rabies vaccinations and preliminary health exams for the following fees:Cats DogsSpayed/Neutered $17 $19Non-Spayed/Neutered $25 $27
Fees include St. Louis County rabies registration and the mandatory U. City dog license. For pets to be seen by the vet, owners must bring their license renewal papers from St. Louis County, and ownership papers. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers.
For more information call 314.505.8579 or 314.569.3111.
U. City to receive David Friedman drawingFormer resident found respite from Holocaust memories at public librariesA charcoal drawing of City Hall has been donated to the citizens of University City by the daughter of famed artist David Friedman. The family lived in U. City from 1959-1986. Miriam Friedman Morris of New York will attend an unveiling of her late father's drawing at 6:30pm, April 30 during a scheduled U. City Council meeting.
David Friedman(n) born in M鄣risch Ostrau, Austria, (now Ostrava, Czech Republic) was an accomplished artist before World War II and the Holocaust. Living in Berlin, he fled the Nazi regime at the end of 1938 to Prague, only to be deported in October 1941 to the Lodz Ghetto, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Gleiwitz I. He survived a Death March to Concentration Camp Blechhammer, Oberschlesien, where he was liberated January 25, 1945 by Soviet troops.
Friedman is best known for his paintings, drawings and etchings titled, Because They Were Jews! This powerful series depicts his horrific experiences in the ghetto and concentration camps. The first series was created 1945-1948 in Prague; the second series, 1963-1964 and 1967 in U. City.
While working on this series, Friedman's trips to the library offered respite from the torment and agony of his memories. The artist said, "I needed to forget about the concentration camps and the horror that was there. So it was a pleasure to go to the library."
From 1962-1972, Friedman produced a large body of work titled, "Enjoyment in Libraries with the Candid Pencil of David Friedman." The portraits of unsuspecting library patrons - mostly from U. City - are currently displayed in a revolving exhibition at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley, New York. A permanent website has been launched to share the collection: http://finkelsteinlibrary.org/Friedman_Drawings/friedmanhome.html
Friedman's Urban Scene series includes sketches of streets, alleys, and parks. The donated 20" x 30" framed drawing of City Hall is a fine example of his special connection to his beloved town. The artist's perspective was from the former, smaller U. City Library at 630 Trinity. Once part of his U. City Library exhibits, the drawing will now hang among other historic documents in the City Manager's office. The donation honors the memory of David (1893-1980) and his wife Hildegard Friedman (1921-1989).
Friedman sold or gave away much of his artwork. His daughter, Miriam is compiling an inventory of pieces remaining in the St. Louis area. If you know of anyone in possession of his work, Miriam would like to receive of photo of it. Reach her by e-mail: mirifm@aol.com
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The works of David Friedman are represented in the permanent collections of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center; St. Louis Public Library; Finkelstein Memorial Library, NY; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.; Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem; Beit Terezin, Givat Haim Ihud, Israel; State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland; Jewish Museum Prague; Ostrava Museum; Sokolov Regional Museum, Czech Republic; New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Germany; and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands.Miriam Friedman Morris, March 2007 |
