The title of this work refers to the church's silence about the death camps during World War II. The stained glass windows of a cathedral on the right side of the painting are juxtaposed to the images of an enclosed fire representing the ovens of the gas chambers at the bottom and the left side of the work. In the center is a pair of lips, reminiscent of those that his father, Max Ernst, often included in his Surrealist canvases. Jimmy Ernst's mother was a Jew who was deported from Paris and killed during the Holocaust.