CWP Launchpad Reading Series Presents: "Oh, I Remember the Black Birch" — The Center at West Park

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A reading-series presentation of a story drawn from true events, about Brina Berman's escape from Warsaw during World War II and her experiences in Japan.

AI summary · From the event listing

In autumn 1941, Brina Berman, an 18-year-old Jewish woman from Warsaw, Poland, gains a transit visa from a Lithuania-posted Japanese diplomat that allows her to escape the Nazis after they murder her family. Brina finds herself in Kobe, Japan, a country in alliance with Germany. Haunted by a maternal water spirit, she strives to find a way forward in a world rife with chaos. The story is drawn from true events.

Upper West Side