Street of Human Rights
Open-air sculpture of white columns carved with the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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This guide to the Street of Human Rights in Nuremberg starts with a count of white concrete columns that comes up short. It follows the Israeli artist Dani Karavan, whose family was torn apart by the Holocaust, as he takes on a commission in the former city of the Nazi party rallies and race laws. Stand at the Kornmarkt end by the arch, with the columns stretching toward the old city wall.
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