#stolpersteine

Ich laufe regelmäßig durch Madrid und bleib kurz stehen weil mir random irgendwo ein Stolperstein auffällt.

Was auch strange ist: es hat n paar Jahre gebraucht bis ich gemerkt hab, dass das bemerkenswert is. in Deutschland hat man die Dinger überall, das blendet sich irgendwann einfach in das Stadtbild ein und fällt nur dann auf, wenn man drauf achtet.

Jedes mal, wenn ich mit Freunden unterwegs bin und mir fällt einer auf erwähne ich das und muss regelmäßig erklären, was die Steine bedeuten, weil die hier eben nicht gängig sind.

Idk. Find ich irgendwo spannend.

Yva, Woman’s legs in stockings (1927)

Yva was the professional pseudonym of Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon (26 January 1900 – disappeared June 1942 and officially declared dead on 31 December 1944), a German Jewish photographer deported by the Gestapo in 1942 and murdered, probably in the Majdanek concentration camp.

from here

Stolperstein outside Schlüterstraße no. 45 in Berlin, Yva's last home

courtyards and walls, Budapest

remains of the Jewish ghetto wall

© optikestrav

In 1944, the Jewish people in Budapest, much like those before them in major cities across Europe, were forced to live in a small 20-block area of the 7th district. ... The wall surrounding the Jewish ghetto was erected in November 1944 and destroyed in 2006. However, the 30-meter section that sits at the back of the courtyard at 15 Király Utca was reconstructed in 2010 (minus the original barbed wire) to serve as a permanent reminder of the tens of thousands who were forced to live in the area. atlasobscura.com

stumbling stones/ stolpersteine

The artist Gunter Demnig remembers the victims of National Socialism by installing commemorative brass plaques in the pavement in front of their last address of choice.

There are now STOLPERSTEINE (lit. “stumbling stones or blocks”) in at least 1200 places in Germany, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.