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Stolpersteine in the Czech Republic gives an overview of the Stolpersteine collocated in the Czech Republic since 2008. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.
Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Czech is: Kameny zmizelých, stones of the disappeared.
(Status from May 2017)
At least 266 Stolpersteine have been collocated in the capital of the Czech Republic. They are mostly (or all) dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime as for most of the political victims there were already monuments or memorial plaques in place when Gunter Demnig started with his project in Prague in 2008. A scientifically correct list of all Stolpersteine in Prague does not exist. Neither the artist, nor the organizers of the collocations do know exactly how many Stolpersteine have been posed in Prague and where they have been collocated. The website stolpersteine.cz all of a sudden disappeared in late 2016.[1] Therefore, it cannot be guaranteed that the following Stolperstein lists of these Prague districts are containing all Stolpersteine collocated:
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The Středočeský kraj, the Central Bohemian Region, is surrounding the capital Prag. Stolpersteine can be found in the following cities:
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The Stolpersteine in the Středočeský kraj were collocated by the artist himself in Kolín on 10 October 2008 and 6 November 2009, in Ratenice on 29 October 2012, Milovice and Mladá Boleslav on 13 September 2014. The dates of the collocations in Neratovice are not known at the moment.
The second largest number of Stolpersteine in the Czech republic can be found in the Moravian city Olomouc. Hranice na Moravě
Further regions[edit]
Photograph by Francisco Peralta Torrejón
In the South Bohemian Region Stolpersteine can be found in České Budějovice (1), Chlum u Třeboně (2) and Třeboň (3).
In the westernmost region of the Czech republic, formerly Carlsbad region, nice Stolpersteine have been posed in Chodov to commemorate members of the families Kettner and Kronberger.
The Highlands Region in the southeast of Bohemia has four municipalities with Stolpersteine: Havlíčkův Brod (2), Pacov (4), Senožaty (4) and Třebíč (3).
- Královéhradecký kraj INFO
In Svitavy, the capital of the Pardubice Region, can be found five Stolpersteine, all collocated on 15 September 2014. They are dedicated to the families Freund and Meller. Arnošt Freund, a class mate of Oskar Schindler, was murdered by the Nazi regime — just as his father and his sister.
- Plzeňský kraj INFO
- Středočeský kraj INFO
- Ústecký kraj INFO
The Zlín region, the eastern part of historical Moravia, hostes four Stolpersteine: three in Boršice remembering family Seidler and one in Kroměříž dedicated to coffee shop owner Emil Brand.
Stolperstein imitations[edit]
In Prague-Josefov, in front of the building Široká 55/8, there can be found two imitations Stolperstein imitations. These plaques are dedicated to Klara Mahlerová and Karel Mahler. These memorial plaques are quite similar to the Stolpersteine, but the inscriptions are not made by hand and the text is in English.
In four cities much larger memorial plaques (approx. 20 per 20 cm) have been collocated:
- In Benešov seven memorial plaques were posed in September 2014 and in May 2015. They are all dedicated to Jewish victims.
- In Brno 19 memorial plaques, all placed in autumn of 2015, remember 19 victims of the Nazi regime. Amongst them there are Jews and non-Jewish resistance fighters for the liberty of Czechoslovakia, one opera singer, Pavel Jeral, and university teachers such as Ladislav Jandásek and Josef Tvrdý, a philosopher.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- stolpersteine.eu, Demnig's website
- holocaust.cz
References[edit]
- ^ stolpersteine.cz was not complete either before it disappeared.
Czech Republic
Category:Holocaust memorials
Stolpersteine
Category:Holocaust commemoration
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