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Then-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)
September 25, 2026, 8:31 pm
German town bans new Holocaust-memory ‘stumbling blocks,’ with center and far-right support
Snubbing city administrators recommendation, Heidenau council votes to reject future installations of brass plaques commemorating Nazi victims
By Emanuele Berro and Friederike Heine
Relatives pose for a photograph holding a Holocaust plaque in German reading "Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX," prior to the placing of the so called "Stolperstein," in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 7, 2026, 1:23 pm
As new Holocaust memorial stone laid in Berlin, relative says plaque serves as substitute for grave
Project initiator Gunter Demnig places ‘stumbling block’ for Nazi victim Johanna Berger; great-nephew says memorial ‘brings the family history to a certain conclusion’
By AP
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 15, 2025, 10:19 am
In Brussels schools, students equating Gaza war with Holocaust stymie remembrance
Educators struggle to teach about genocide of six million Jews, feel helpless against pushback; some students avoid showing up for trips to Jewish museum, synagogues
By AFP and ToI Staff
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
Then-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
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