Stumbling over the Truth - Stolpersteine project Berlin Germany
About six million Jews were murdered in Germany and Europe under National Socialism, as well as Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, political and religious dissidents and people with disabilities. The Cologne-based sculptor Gunter Demnig (56) researches when victims of persecution were born and died, and their last places of residence. He then sets a ten-by-ten-centimetre square block made of concrete into the pavement in front of the building where each one lived, its upper side bearing a brass plate with their name, year of birth and information about their deportation. In the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, for example: "Here lived Julius Laufer, born 1878, deported, destination ???, fate ???" Nearby lived the seamstress Hedwig Hermann, who was born in 1886. Research has now found that both were deported to Riga in 1942.
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Photo credit: © Petr Bonek / Alamy / Afripics
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