The world's largest grassroots Holocaust memorial project has laid its 100,000th personalised plaque in Germany's streets while the country's authorities have recently sounded the alarm over rising anti-Semitism
US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann attends 'Stolpersteine' ceremony for her family / Photo: AFP
Each block, or Stolperstein, the size of a cobblestone, bears a stark engraving with the name of a victim, birthdate, date of deportation or escape and, if known, date and place of death. On Tuesday, he joined US Ambassador Amy Gutmann in the picturesque southern city of Feuchtwangen to lay eight blocks for her German Jewish relatives.
Gutmann told guests at the commemoration in Feuchtwangen, which had an 800-year-old history of Jewish life, that the Stolpersteine gave her"the honour of bringing some closure for my family". "But maybe someday there will be 200,000," he said."It will always remain a symbol. But I think this symbol is very important."Stolpersteine artist Gunter Demnig commemorates Holocaust victims in German streets.
Current residents of homes from which Nazi victims were deported frequently attend the inauguration ceremonies and lay flowers for victims, while high school students research the biographies as part of history classes.
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