Well, said! I hosted a German student many years ago. He’s now 45 and a husband and father. We recently visited with him in Germany. On a stroll about his town we saw small bronze squares of metal imbedded among the cobblestones. Each one commemorates a Jew who once lived in the neighborhood and never returned. The Nazis also took headst…
Well, said! I hosted a German student many years ago. He’s now 45 and a husband and father. We recently visited with him in Germany. On a stroll about his town we saw small bronze squares of metal imbedded among the cobblestones. Each one commemorates a Jew who once lived in the neighborhood and never returned. The Nazis also took headstones from Jewish cemeteries and used them as building materials and covered them with stucco. Now the stucco has been removed and the headstone revealed imbedded in the building. He said that all schoolchildren learn about the Holocaust in school so that it never happens again.
They're called "Stolpersteine" - "stumbling stones."
Say what you want about the Germans but - perhaps more than any other people - they've gone out of their way to come to terms with the dark areas in their past.
Well, said! I hosted a German student many years ago. He’s now 45 and a husband and father. We recently visited with him in Germany. On a stroll about his town we saw small bronze squares of metal imbedded among the cobblestones. Each one commemorates a Jew who once lived in the neighborhood and never returned. The Nazis also took headstones from Jewish cemeteries and used them as building materials and covered them with stucco. Now the stucco has been removed and the headstone revealed imbedded in the building. He said that all schoolchildren learn about the Holocaust in school so that it never happens again.
I never knew that about the headstones and the commemorate bronze squares in the cobblestones. I have to read about that. Thanks!
They're called "Stolpersteine" - "stumbling stones."
Say what you want about the Germans but - perhaps more than any other people - they've gone out of their way to come to terms with the dark areas in their past.
I’ve found the metal squares in Italy, too.