"It seemed as if it would be impossible to design a memorial for the site of the urn containing ashes of the victims murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp to be laid to rest in Dutch soil. How can you devise a form to mark a crime which you know in your heart will remain unforgiven even when our planet ceases to exist? To attempt to find an image to reflect the ignominy and the suffering transcends the limits of anyone's comprehension. When I looked up at the sky it was impossible to imagine the same sun shining over that destruction as indifferently and peacefully as over a meadow filled with flowers. In a vision of justice the blue sky above me cracked apart as if the horrors that took place on earth below have desecrated that eternity forever. That is what led me to place these broken mirrors on this small plot of ground above the urn.
Here you will never again see the heavens reflected undesecrated."
J Wolkers, NOOIT MEER AUSCHWITZ [NEVER AGAIN AUSCHWITZ]