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. 28  Roman Halter