I'm a simple emigrant, and on walks I carefully look at everything around me

On a casual stroll without a plan, I stumbled upon unusual tiles on the pavement with an engraving, and I became curious why they were installed there. It turned out these tiles are Stolpersteine (read as Stolpersteine; stones you stumble over, stumbling stones) — part of a project by German artist Günter Demnig: he wanted people to notice them by chance and to ask themselves whose names and dates these are. Thus Demnig urges us to remember the victims of Nazi oppression. For me, for example, it worked exactly as the artist planned. On the Stolpersteine, wrapped in leaves of brass, the name of a person is engraved, as well as their year of birth, and the year and place of death. They are placed in front of the houses where people who suffered under Nazism once lived. The monuments mainly tell about Jews, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and other victims. In total, more than 75,000 memorial stones have been installed around the world, mostly in Western Europe, and there are even some in Russia. In the streets of Frankfurt you can encounter 1700 Stolpersteine. And have you ever noticed them? #frankfurt #history