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/ˈʃtɒlpə(ɹ)ˌʃtaɪn/ · noun
A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism..
A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.
BTW what happened to all those people whose stolpersteins I saw last time in Koln and Berlin and where did the all those Jews,gypsies,^([sic]) mentally/physically retarded people who were there in 1932 go to?
In 2023, Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones” for the 16 lost members will be laid in the sidewalk in front of their former homes in the Austrian capital.
Seen this way, eponyms might be compared to the modern German tradition of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones”— brass plaques, embedded in cobblestone streets across Europe, that commemorate Holocaust victims by listing their names and the date they were seized from their homes.
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Stolperstein means A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism..
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A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.
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