In 1994, I was commissioned by the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston, to build a memorial for Walter Suskind, a Dutch citizen who saved 1200 Jewish children during the Holocaust in Amsterdam. A program called Young at Arts was created there with a sister theater in Amsterdam to honor Suskind by bringing inner city kids to the center to work out their feelings through the various arts. The founders of the program, Reis and Netty Vanderpol (survivors), had seen my Holocaust Memorial 1993 in Providence. They asked if I could incorporate a poem written by a Holocaust survivor on the sculpture.

The sculpture is 54” x 24” x 12”, forged, welded, and brazed steel with inlay of bronze for lettering in the steel shield, fused and slumped glass with metal oxide underpainting for lettering on the glass shield.