Stumbling Stones
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May 25, 2016
These plaques mark the location of a historic atrocity and list the names of the people who were hurt. Candles were placed there last Nov. 9 to mark the anniversary of the 1938 “Crystal Night” when Jews were attacked and their homes and businesses vandalized by the Nazis.
While most of the bigger cities in Germany and Austria have museums and monuments documenting the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, there is one kind of smaller memorial that can be found in towns of all sizes in not just Germany and Austria, but most of the countries that were occupied by the Nazis during the 1930s and 40s.
Despite the prevalence of this particular memorial, it is something that you may miss if you’re not already aware of its existence. This is because it consists not of statues or monuments, but small gold plaques in the ground, lying side-by-side with the othe...
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