Category:Stolpersteine
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English: Stolperstein is the German word for "stumbling block", "obstacle", or "something in the way". The artist Gunter Demnig has given this word a new meaning, that of a small, cobblestone-sized memorial for a single victim of Nazism set in the pavement before the building in which this person lived. These memorials commemorate individuals -- those who died as well as survivors -- who were deported by the Nazis to prisons, euthanasia "clinics", concentration camps, and extermination camps, as well as individuals who responded to persecution by emigrating or committing suicide. They include Jews, Sinti and Romani people (also called gypsies), homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Black people, Christians (both Protestants and Catholics) opposed to the Nazis, members of the Communist Party and the Resistance, military deserters, and the physically and mentally disabled. The list of locales that have Stolpersteine now extends to several countries and hundreds of cities and towns.
Deutsch: Die Stolpersteine sind ein Projekt des Künstlers Gunter Demnig. Mit diesen Gedenktafeln soll an das Schicksal der Menschen erinnert werden, die im Nationalsozialismus ermordet, deportiert, vertrieben oder in den Suizid getrieben wurden. Die Stolpersteine sind kubische Betonsteine mit einer Kantenlänge von zehn Zentimetern, auf deren Oberseite sich eine individuell beschriftete Messingplatte befindet. Sie werden in der Regel vor den letzten frei gewählten Wohnhäusern der NS-Opfer niveaugleich in das Pflaster des Gehweges eingelassen.
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