Munich’s city council voted Wednesday to uphold a ban on the placement of plaque-topped cobblestones that for years have served as memorials to Holocaust victims in towns throughout Germany.
First instituted in 2004, the ban on the Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, does not allow the small memorials to be embedded in Munich streets as they are in hundreds of places across Germany and more than a dozen other European countries, including Poland, Austria, France, the Netherlands and Ukraine.
The ongoing project is the brainchild of German artist Gunter Demnig, who has been installing the stones since 1997, according …read more
Source: Newsweek
