Stolpersteine

A name and a place: After 83 years, 52 descendants honor Holocaust victims in Antwerp

'Growing up, it was clear to me that I would live in Israel – it felt like the most fitting response to what my grandparents endured.'

 SONNY BAURNFREUND speaks outside the home of the grandparents he never met.
 ‘STOLPERSTEINE’ IN Nuremberg: Dr. Sammy Adler’s grandparents Nathan and Mirjam Adler.

Stumbling stones: Part three of the saga Adler family

 ARTIST GUNTER DEMNIG installs the Stumbling Stones.

'Stumbling Stones: How 100,000 plaques shape Holocaust memory

 KRISTALLNACHT RALLY, aka ‘November Pogroms,’ 2022.

Encounter in Vienna: A shared context and discussions of murder


Memorials in Germany remember the family of Israeli ambassador’s wife

There are nearly 80,000 such memorials in Germany and elsewhere in Europe; the brass blocks are etched with dates of birth and death.

Two 'Stolpersteine' outside of a building in Heidelberg, Germany for Max and Olga Mayer. They both escaped Germany in 1939 via Switzerland and Spain to the USA and survived the Holocaust.

Cobblestones commemorating Holocaust victims disposed of after roadworks

The news came out after the town's mayor, Ulrich Schulte, had taken part in a ceremony at the town's Jewish cemetery in remembrance of Holocaust victims.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.

Cobblestones commemorating Holocaust turn a new corner

By tying a victim's fate to a capsule biography, the 'stumble stones' seek to reduce the epic scale of the Holocaust to a more comprehensible human story.

German artist Gunter Demnig puts three 'Snublesten', or Stolpersteine, in front of the Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17, 2019. A stumbling block is a memorial stone laid in the pavement next to houses where victims of Nazism had their homes

Italian town says 'no' to Holocaust memorial, calling it divisive

The municipal council of the Italian town of Schio, population 40,000, has rejected a proposal to honor its citizens who perished in the death camps with Stolpersteine.

German artist Gunter Demnig puts three 'Snublesten', or Stolpersteine, in front of the Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17, 2019. A stumbling block is a memorial stone laid in the pavement next to houses where victims of Nazism had their homes

Holocaust memorial stone vandalized in Rome

The sticker was cut to perfectly fit the stone and read a message in German: “The murderer always returns to the scene of the crime.”

Artist Gunter Demnig lays Stolpersteine, small brass plaques that commemorate victims of the Nazis, in Cologne in 2015