“As people so often point out: These were mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, neighbors. “We want to get to the individuals, who make up all of the millions of deaths,’’ Allen said. Both are emerging in the COVID-19 memorials. Memorials like the AIDS quilt and the Stumbling Stones have helped solidify a trend toward grass-roots remembrances and the desire to honor victims as individuals, Allen said. The quilt has grown to nearly 50,000 squares, representing more than 105,000 individuals. Not since the AIDS quilt made its way across the United States, with loved ones adding squares for people who had succumbed, has a health crisis been the object of memorials of a scale like those now honoring the COVID-19 dead. They span big, traditional monuments like Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, and more personalized tributes where victims are named, like the so-called Stumbling Stones outside buildings were Jews lived before the Holocaust. Holocaust memorials were the next major testaments to mass killing, Allen said. "That is why we talk about the lost generation.”
“It was a period of mass death," Allen said. That pandemic seems to have been little memorialized, partly because of the keen focus on the war dead.
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