Giant Holocaust project marks 100,000-plaque milestone

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 01, 2023 9:00 pm

FEUCHTWANGEN, Germany: The world's largest grassroots Holocaust memorial project has laid its 100,000th personalized plaque, as the US ambassador to Germany honoured her family members who fled the Nazis with an emotional ceremony.

When sculptor Gunter Demnig started the Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling blocks', initiative three decades ago, he had little idea it would spread to more than 20 countries in Europe and crystalize many of the fraught contemporary questions around historical remembrance.

US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann touches the freshly laid 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones) for members of her family in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, on May 30, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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