A man walks past stumbling stones. Every "stumbling stone" memorial to local residents of the eastern German town of Zeitz who fell victim to the Holocaust were apparently ripped from the pavement on ...

In European cities, it is not uncommon to see groups kneeling on sidewalks cleaning Stolpersteine. Using brass cleaner, rags, sponges, and water, they restore the dirty and dull “stumbling stones” ...

'Stumbling Stones: How 100,000 plaques shape Holocaust memory The Stumbling Stones commemorate all victims of National Socialism – those murdered in camps, those who survived, and those who escaped by ...

SALZBURG, Austria — Let the dead trip the people into remembering. That was the committee’s first proposal for how the Stolpersteine plaques should be installed into Salzburg’s sidewalks. They ...

A new collaboration between a South Arlington church and a local artist is seeking to memorialize places where immigration enforcement has arrested people in Arlington. Led by the Rev. Ashley Goff, ...

The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte — three people enslaved in the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s — had previously been unknown to all but their descendants. But now, ...

Brick by brick, Guenther Demnig is working to change how the Holocaust is publicly remembered in Germany. On a recent afternoon, the 62-year-old Berlin-born artist is on his knees on a sidewalk in a ...

Artist Gunter Demnig works quickly and quietly. He kneels down to remove a slab of Berlin pavement and carefully replaces it with three small brass plaques, engraved with the names of the Boschwitz ...