Stolpersteine app: More than 36,000 stones now registered in 93 cities
The free "Stolpersteine Deutschland" app grew again last year. The creators invite you to be part of the culture of remembrance.
"A person is only forgotten when their name is forgotten," says German artist Gunter Demnig, quoting the Talmud. Demnig laid the first Stolperstein in 1992. The names and other life details of victims of the Nazi era were and are recorded on small square brass plates on stones that are then embedded in the ground.
(Image: Stolpersteine Deutschland-App)
The Stolpersteine Deutschland app was able to register a further increase in the number of stones available in the app last year. There are now more than 36,000 stones in 93 cities in the database. This was reported by the Cologne-based agency D-Sire, which is responsible for the app, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Supra-regional project
The app was first introduced in 2022. According to the operators, it is now the most comprehensive digital collection of its kind in Germany. In addition to the Stolpersteine Deutschland app, there are similar offerings that are generally limited to a specific region. For example, the Stolpersteine app from Westdeutscher Rundfunk, which is dedicated to stumbling blocks in North Rhine-Westphalia and also covers a small part of Berlin on the occasion of Re-publica 2022. The WDR app comes with more media bonus material such as “graphic stories” and audio productions, but is also publicly funded. The Stolpersteine app from D-Sire is provided and maintained free of charge by the agency.
Like the WDR app, the Stolpersteine Deutschland app relies on committed people who want to be part of the culture of remembrance and maintain it. For example, heavily soiled stones can be reported in the WDR app and other stones can be documented for the Stolpersteine Deutschland app. As more than 100,000 Stolpersteine can now be found in Germany, the project continues to welcome help. Otherwise, the app is fed via OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. When it was launched on November 9, 2022, it was already able to display 20,000 stones in Germany.
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Within the app, photographs of the stones as well as biographical data on victims of National Socialism can be accessed largely barrier-free. All the stones are visualized at the location where they were laid within a map view. This makes it easier to find nearby stones.
Largest decentralized memorial in the world
The Stolpersteine are a project by artist Gunter Demnig. In 1992, he placed the first Stolperstein in the ground in front of one of the self-chosen living and working spaces of victims of the Nazi era. In doing so, he created an ever-growing art memorial, which is considered the largest decentralized memorial in the world. Today there are Stolpersteine in more than 30 countries.
Stolpersteine Deutschland und Stolpersteine NRW (3 Bilder)
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