Cobblestones honoring Holocaust victims appear on Prague streets

Artist Gunter Demnig’s cobblestone plaques have already collectively become the single biggest Holocaust memorial in Germany

Society
Brian Kenety | 13.06.2011
Seen here installing the first Czech ‘stumbling blocks’ in 2008, German artist Gunter Demnig is back in Prague this week to carry on his ‘life’s work’

Another series of memorials, writ small, will soon grace the streets of Prague outside the homes of the Holocaust victims who lived there before being forcibly deported. It is part of the Stolpersteine (“stumbling blocks”) project of German artist Gunter Demnig, who since 1993 has installed tens of thousands of brass-plated plaques across Europe, inspired by a line from the Talmud: “One is not truly dead until one’s name is forgotten.”

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