LEVENSLICHT (LIGHT OF LIFE)
104,000 luminescent stones remember 104,000 Holocaust victims.
The new Holocaust monument LEVENSLICHT in collaboration with National Committee for 4 and 5 May remembers the 104,000 Dutch Holocaust victims with 104,000 specially developed luminescent stones, and encourages participation across 170 municipalities. The Jewish custom is to place stones to honour the deceased, not flowers. Artist Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers have used this as an inspiration for LEVENSLICHT. By using invisible ultraviolet light, the specially developed stones with fluorescent pigments can light up every few seconds, like a breath of light. The artwork LEVENSLICHT was exhibited in Rotterdam, lighting up the banks of the river Maas. After that LEVENSLICHT was shared among more than 170 local municipalities with a Holocaust history in the Netherlands. Never before has the Holocaust been commemorated in so many places at the same time. LEVENSLICHT makes people aware of the consequences that the Holocaust has had in many Dutch municipalities. Light is life.