Leonard Baskin, an artist who created a 7-foot sculpture to commemorate the Holocaust that stands in Ann Arbor, Mich., died at the age of 77. Baskin, the son of a rabbi, also created a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Museum in Washington.
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