Vandals defaced one of the “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorials unveiled last week in Milan, covering it with black paint.
The vandalism was discovered Saturday by Ornella Coen, the daughter of Dante Coen, the person commemorated by the plaque, who was deported to Auschwitz and then killed at Buchenwald on April 4, 1945.
“Stumbling stones,” or “stolpersteine,” are individual commemorative cobblestones placed in front of the houses of people who were deported during the Holocaust. Placing them is an ongoing memorial and art project by the German artist Gunter Deming, who installs each one — nearly 60,000 in various countries since the mid-1990s.
The defaced stone was one of the first six stumbling stones to be installed in Milan, during a ceremony on January 19. It is believed to have been defaced the next day.
— JTA
People place flowers near so called ‘Stolpersteine’, or stumbling stones, set by German artist Gunter Demnig to remember Nazi victim Mildred Fish-Harnack and her husband Arvid Harnack at Genthiner Strasse in Berlin, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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