The Nation - News from May 24, 1987

The federal Commission of Fine Arts voted in Washington to reconsider the design for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial that will honor the millions who lost their lives in the Nazi terror of World War II. Architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Partners proposed a hexagonal memorial adjoining a five-story museum building, but the plan has drawn criticism. New York state Sen. Roy Goodman, who lost relatives in the Holocaust, said the plan would produce “a gun turret rather than a monument of distinction,” and commission members questioned Freed about whether the memorial would fit in with adjacent buildings, such as the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving.