Inevitably the story of the Holocaust gets diluted as the survivors pass away. Children of survivors have tried to perpetuate the memories of the six million victims, but that is a serious challenge.
The intimacy of the stained glass depiction of remembrance assures us that people will be reminded of this crime against humanity. The Holocaust became more likely when the night of broken glass occurred in Germany in November 1938. It is called Kristallnacht.
The stained glass represents a healing process that symbolically assembles the glass shards. The healing can never totally succeed but it keeps the possibility of reflection alive.
STEVEN A. LUDSIN
East Hampton, New York
The writer was a member of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust and the first U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council that built the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
