Directed and Produced by Karen Frostig

Photo Credit Mike E. Dunne

Lead Artist and Artistic Director Karen Frostig with Ed Malouf, Jennifer Varekamp, and Emily Moughan (2024).
“Mourning Shroud for the Jungfernhof Concentration Camp”. Cloth embroidered and printed. 96” x 144.”

Karen Frostig, Director and Producer. Mike E. Dunne, Still Photographer and Video Editor

Karen Frostig, Leader

The Group

Anabel Gil Diaz, Anima Terrae (Earth’s Soul) played on a fife (black flute).

Cantor Alicia Stillman, Temple Israel of Boston, Brandeis ‘89

Descendants from US and Germany

Descendants speak, reading names of loved ones

Paul Roth

Pete Stern, Survivor of five camps and uncle to Alan Stern

Fred Zimmak

Myrna Hass

Dr. Alan Stern, descendant and nephew of Pete Stern, and son to the late Dr. Samuel Stern

The Procession

Carrying the shroud out into the courtyard, Steve Miller sprinkles the land with earth carried from the Jungfernhof concentration camp to Brandeis University in a symbolic gesture of bridging these two worlds. The shroud, printed with the names of 3836 victims became the tangible object linking the past to the present. A trace of Jungfernhof will remain in Waltham, just as a trace of memory remains at the camp.

Photo credit: Mike E. Dunne