The figures in 20th century dress are following a Patriarch carrying the Torah, representing the Exodus. The Hebrew script below says: "I have taken you out of the land of Egypt".
Arnold Zadikow was born in Lithuania and studied in Poznan, Poland. His artistic works included silver and bronze before he turned his interests to glass. Moving to art school in Germany he was denounced by the anti-semitic Director and sent to Theresienstadt where he died in the ghetto.