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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Stolpersteine

Illustrative: A flower lays on polished so-called 'Stolpersteine' or 'stumbling stones' commemorating people deported and killed by the Nazis, in front of a resident building in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2021, the 83th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 10, 2024, 5:21 am
German town’s memorial stones for Nazi victims stolen on Oct. 7 anniversary
Officials in Zeitz react with horror to dislodging of 10 ‘Stolpersteine,’ with mayor denouncing it as ‘an attack on our democracy’
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: A rose is placed near freshly polished so-called stumbling stones commemorating people, most of them Jews, deported and killed by the Nazis, in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 20, 2024, 10:36 am
Holocaust memorial stones in Germany vandalized with antisemitic messages
‘Jews are criminals’ graffitied on stumbling stones in Weimar; phrase was used in acts of vandalism last year, in incidents believed to be connected
By ToI Staff
At the Königin Luise Schule in Cologne, Germany, students watch as 'Stumbling Stone' memorials are installed for Holocaust victims who were expelled by the school during Nazi rule (courtesy)
May 6, 2024, 8:32 am
German students research fates of their school’s Jews to bring Nazi-era horrors home
Against backdrop of October 7 massacres and surge in global antisemitism, US consultant Terry Mandel visits Germany to expand award-winning Holocaust memory project based in Cologne
By Matt Lebovic
US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann touches the freshly laid 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones) for members of her family in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, on May 30, 2023. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)
June 1, 2023, 11:01 pm
Holocaust memorial project marks milestone with 100,000 ‘stumbling blocks’
Gunter Demnig, who began initiative, says he hopes the Stolpersteine will help create ‘a different image of Germany,’ as US ambassador lays memorial plaque for her relatives
By Pauline CURTET and Deborah Cole
Volunteers clean Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Brussels, Belgium, during a Yom Hashoah Stolpersteine cleaning event co-organized with the European Jewish Association, April 27, 2022. (Courtesy of Make Their Memory Shine)
April 18, 2023, 6:44 am
In grassroots effort, young Europeans clean ‘stumbling stones’ to gleam like beacons
Make Their Memory Shine organization brings together people of all backgrounds to commemorate Holocaust, identify common values and respect differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A swastika carved into a headstone at the Jewish cemetery of Haren, Germany in November 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Haren/Eli Nahum/Monitoring Antisemitism Worldwide via JTA)
November 19, 2020, 9:35 am
Swastikas carved into Jewish headstones, memorials daubed with paint in Germany
Cemetery vandalism found in Haren being treated as anti-Semitic hate crime by police; Stolperstein ‘stumbling stone’ plaques for Holocaust victims defaced in Chemnitz, Eilenburg
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative image of a 'Stolperstein,' or stumbling stone, in Berlin, November 9, 2013. (AFP/Johannes Eisele)
August 11, 2020, 9:58 am
German ‘stumbling stones’ memorialize family of Israeli envoy’s wife
Laura Kam commissioned Dortmund memorial after spending years researching history of her maternal great-grandparents, who died in the Holocaust
By Toby Axelrod
Stolperstein Holocaust memorials, or stumbling stones, in front of an apartment building in the Rome Ghetto. (Marcy Oster via JTA)
December 23, 2019, 9:46 pm
Polish city refuses to install memorial stones for Holocaust victims
Szczecin city architect tells Jewish woman who asked to commemorate her father with ‘Stolpersteine’ that passersby might think the perpetrators of the Nazi crimes were Poles
By Katarzyna Markusz
Mandy Eisemann from Dickerson, Maryland. with her son Levi (4), relatives of the Cohn family, places flowers at four "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) for Karolina Cohn and her family in Frankfurt, Germany, November 13, 2017. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)
May 21, 2019, 6:38 am
Sweden will soon get its first Holocaust memorial ‘stumbling stones’
There are more than 70,000 small brass plates placed on the streets of Europe, outside the last known homes of people killed in the Holocaust
By Josefin Dolsten
Volunteers clean stolpersteine in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood on international Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
January 28, 2019, 4:49 pm
Berlin grassroots project cleans Holocaust memorials where Jews scrubbed streets
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, residents of a culturally mixed neighborhood come together to pay respects to WWII victims even while building a united future
By Yaakov Schwartz
Artist Gunter Demnig lays four 'Stolpersteine,' or stumbling stones, a Holocaust commemoration, for Karolina Cohn and her family in Frankfurt, Germany, November 13, 2017. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)
August 29, 2018, 3:15 pm
Dutch city accused of plagiarizing Holocaust memorial cobblestones idea
German artist who set more than 50,000 plaques next to Jews’ former homes says decision by Apeldoorn municipality to do so independently is ‘not alright’
By JTA
A view of some “stolpersteine” in Berlin, August 2012. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)
July 29, 2018, 10:42 pm
Munich introduces new Holocaust remembrance plaques
Instead of ‘stumbling stone’ memorials placed on the ground, new markers with photos, biographies set in walls of buildings
By JTA
Illustrative image of a 'Stolperstein,' or stumbling stone, in Berlin, November 9, 2013. (AFP/Johannes Eisele)
July 28, 2018, 8:50 am
Munich begins swapping out ‘disrespectful’ Holocaust memorials
New plaques replace commemorative cobblestones after complaints they are stepped on and get dirty
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Three Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling stones,' dedicated to the memory of Josef Geer and to the Hauslauers -- a married couple who were Jehovah's Witnesses -- in Salzburg, Austria. (Noah Lederman/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2018, 9:36 am
Non-Jewish retiree cleans Salzburg’s 388 memorial plaques for Nazi victims
Gerhard Geier polishes the cobblestone memorials so that people ‘will notice them better’
By Gabe Friedman
A man sitting with his foot near a stumbling stone; stumbling stones placed in the road, one near a pedestrian crossing marking. (Noah Lederman/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2017, 11:16 am
Austrians tread carefully as underfoot Holocaust memorials remain controversial
For the past 20 years Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, have peppered the idyllic town of Salzburg, a reminder of the city’s victims. But does anyone notice?
By Noah Lederman
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