Jamner explores contrasts as he examines a mural depicting two uniforms of the Third Reich: a striped uniform worn by Jews in concentration camps and a Nazi military uniform. He begins by telling the students about the Kol Nidre, a prayer sung the night before Yom Kippur that asks God’s forgiveness for vows that could not be kept. He describes what the song meant to his mother by sharing her memory of a moving moment of solidarity and resistance among the Jews when she was in Auschwitz. He describes the contrasting ways in which his mother and grandmother dealt with their old concentration camp uniforms.

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