Rome remembers Holocaust victims with new bronze cobblestones
21 Jan, 2021
stolpersteine Holocaust memorials.
Rome has installed 21 new brass cobblestone memorials to victims of the Holocaust at various locations throughout the capital, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
The cobblestone-sized memorials are known as
stolpersteine in German, or literally translated “stumbling stones”, and are installed outside the last chosen place of residence of victims of the Holocaust.
The memorials, which have been added to the 336 stopersteine already present on Rome s streets, are dedicated to Jews and partisans, including women and children, who were either deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp or killed at the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome.