RETURN

Participants were encouraged to leave behind a stone marker, a token of their visit to the installation and as a gesture of honor and respect. In the Jewish tradition of gravesite visitation, this practice is preferred over flowers because stones provide a more permanent testimony.

Burnt branches wrapped with burn-striped canvas filled a trough below the portal/tower/bridge. The striped fabric echoed uniforms worn by concentration camp victims. The branches represented victims' bones, charred from incineration in ovens fired to eliminate evidence of their existence.