It is a small square block of stone (10×10 cm), covered with shiny brass, placed in front of the door of the house in which a person deported to the extermination camps last resided: it remembers their name, year of birth, day and place of deportation, and date of death.<\/p>\n
This is intended to keep alive the memory of the victims of all Deportations in the symbolic place of everyday life – the home – while at the same time inviting those who pass by to reflect on what happened in that place and on that date, so as not to forget.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands have already been installed in Europe, 144 of them in Milan. Today, “Stones of Stumbling” – an initiative created by artist Gunter Demnig as a reaction to all forms of denialism and forgetting – is the largest widespread monument in Europe dedicated to the victims of Nazi extermination, whatever the reason for persecution was: religion, race, political ideas, sexual orientation.<\/p>\n