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

On another aimless stroll, I stumbled upon unusual paving tiles with engravings, and I became curious why they were installed there. It turned out these tiles are Stolpersteine (pronounced shtolp-er-stai-neh; stones you stumble over, stumbling stones) — part of a project by German artist Günter Demnig: he wanted people to notice them by chance and wonder whose names and dates these are. Thus Demnig calls on us to remember the victims of Nazi oppression. For me, for example, it worked exactly as the artist planned. On the Stolpersteine, wrapped in brass leaves, 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 Stolpersteine have been installed worldwide, mainly in Western Europe, and there are even Stolpersteine in Russia. On the streets of Frankfurt you can encounter 1,700 Stolpersteine. And have you ever noticed them? #frankfurt #history