The “Miracle of Three Sisters” glass sculpture featured in the epilogue was created by Pam and Oded Ravek. It is both a tribute and a memorial. It is a memorial to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis (expressed by fragmented scattered roses with thorns on the base) and to the memory of the 1,500,000 children under the age of thirteen (twelve nascent roses on the second tier without thorns). The intentionally rough-cast numbers on three facing sides are the actual numbers that were burned into the arms of the three sisters. The side with no number serves to illustrate that a number may be
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