She was the recipient of a grant from the Hadassah International Research Center (now the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) for this work.
This hour length work was premiered at Harvard University's John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, and has since had numerous performances including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. in April 1998, and the IAWM Congress in London, England, in July 1999 where she received the Miriam Gideon Composition award for this work.
[6] In 2001, she also received the Chicago Professional Musicians Award for the 10th song of the cycle, which is set for mezzo-soprano, English horn and piano.
[7] Lomon was composer-in-residence for Boston Secession, a professional choral ensemble directed by Jane Ring Frank.
The texts — in Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Polish, English and Yiddish — represent the personal experience of sixteen survivors and victims, including ten individual women and children.