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This is sort of the poetic logic of the whole thing, and the way that I think about the film and actually the way that Daniel Libeskind recently, the extraordinary architect who’s designed many memorials, recently he wrote about the film and it was sent to me, and I was extremely moved by it because it was certainly the one interpretation of the film thus far that was the most in step with what we actually intended.

The plans, by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, will include preserving some parts of the existing structure and replacing others, with spaces for worship, community activities and programming about antisemitism.

Mr. Libeskind would soon learn that the gunman had apparently chosen Tree of Life because one of the three congregations that worshiped there, Dor Hadash, had participated in a program for refugees with the charity HIAS.

That group, under its original name, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, had given Mr. Libeskind’s family members financial assistance and helped them rent a home in Bronx public housing when they arrived as immigrants in 1959.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect known for memorializing historical trauma and a son of Holocaust survivors, was chosen to help turn that vision into structure.