Keep Memories Alive – in keeping with this motto, Gunter Demnig has been laying stumbling stones in Nuremberg since 1992. The stones are laid in front of the last freely-chosen residences of people who, during the National Socialist period, were persecuted, murdered, deported, exiled or driven to commit suicide.
The brass plaques pay tribute to Jews, Roma and Sinti, victims of political persecution, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and human beings with mental and psychic disabilities.
So far, more than 90,000 stumbling stones have been laid in over 1,200 administrative districts in Germany and 25 European countries.