Roman Halter • Life and Art through Stained Glass 1 | Page 34
In Yad LaYeled, a museum centre at The Ghetto Fighters’
Museum, Israel, commemorating the one-and-a-half million
Jewish children who were killed during the Holocaust, Roman
Halter and Ardyn Halter interpreted the drawings made by
children in the Theresienstadt camp (published in No More
Butterflies in the Ghetto) and interpreted them in stained glass.
The brilliance of the colours in those windows communicates
the core intention that the drawings of those children be a living
link to children visiting the centre today. The windows are set
into the wall with plaster recesses that serve like funnels carrying
the coloured light from the windows of the rotunda down to the
visitors below. The father-son Halter team was influenced in this
detail by Le Corbusier’s chapel at Ronchamp.
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