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Demnigs Gedenksteine berühren, weil sie Menschen in die Gegenwart holen, die einst im eigenen Viertel lebten, oder sogar im eigenen Haus. [G] Demnig's memorial stones are moving because they give people who once lived in the same area or even the same building a presence in the here and now.

Gunter Demnigs "Stolpersteine", die er in zahlreichen deutschen Städten verlegen ließ, verdeutlichen dieses Konzept exemplarisch: Vor den Hauseingängen der Wohnungen von Menschen, die während des Nationalsozialismus deportiert worden waren, erinnern Pflastersteine mit den Namen der Deportierten an deren Schicksal. [G] Gunter Demnig's "Stolpersteine" (i.e. Stumbling Stones), which he has had laid in many German cities, illustrate this concept in exemplary fashion. Paving stones bearing the names of people who were deported during the Nazi era are laid in front of buildings where they lived to recall their fate.

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