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Raju Mann

President & CEO
  • 01/27
  • Art & Culture
  • Community

BPCA MARKS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, poems will appear on sidewalks and plazas in Battery Park City when it rains.

In conjunction with The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and its Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. Exhibition, these Raining Poetry installations feature poems by Miklós Radnóti, Primo Levi, and Charlotte Delbo — poets who were interned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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