Roman and Ardyn Halter | |
One of a series of stained glass windows completed by Roman and Ardyn. It commemorates 'The genocide and the possibility of hope' | |
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In September 1939, Roman Halter was 12 years old and living in Poland. Within days of the invasion, members of the Jewish community had been executed or used as slaves building roads and extermination camps. In 1940 Roman, his parents, and other family members were sent to the ghetto in Lodz. Many of Roman's family died there while his mother, sister and her family perished in an extermination camp. Roman survived to be put to work at Auschwitz.
After the war Roman came to England where he became an architect, married and raised a family. In the 1970s he started writing about and painting his experiences and together with his artist son, Ardyn, has just completed a series of stained glass windows for the Genocide Memorial Centre due to open in Kigali, Rwanda next month.
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