Every time I run into a set of Stolpersteine, or stumbling-stones on the street, I stop and take a photo. This is a massive art project by Gunter Deming all accross Europe. Memorials to those deported during the holocaust are placed in the street outside their former residences.
May we never forget the Kaufmann family: Theo, Kurt, Helene, Julian, Johanna and Gittel, taken from this inauspicious spot in Berlin 26.10.1942, Ermordet 29.10.1942.
By the way, there’s more than 70,000 of these accross Europe.
'Stumbling stones': a different vision of Holocaust remembrance
A German artist has now laid more than 70,000 Stolpersteine stones in cities around the world – but not everyone approves
It started in Cologne in 1992.
What an amazing commitment by an artist to a #culturecare project, a lifelong passion by Gunter Deming to create “the largest decentralized memorial site in the world.”
Demnig cites the Talmud, which states that "a person is not forgotten until his or her name is forgotten.”