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'COLOGNE, Germany, May 5 (Reuters) - A German artist who is preparing to lay
the 100,000th cobblestone commemorating a person who was deported and killed by
the Nazis has no intention of giving up making the brass-capped blocks, saying
demand is higher than ever.
By placing Stolpersteine ("stumble stones") outside the victims' last known
address, 75-year-old Gunter Demnig aims to draw attention to the fate of
individuals in the Holocaust.
The project started about three decades ago when Demnig laid the first stones
in Berlin and Cologne.
Nearly 100,000 cobblestones later, they can be found in 30 countries across
Europe, from Finland to Italy, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine.
"I never dreamed of this," Demnig said, saying he had expected a few hundred or
maybe 1,000 stones.
"I was naive enough to believe that it would have to decrease at some point ...
but it's the other way around: interest is getting greater and greater."
He expects to lay his 100,000th stone this year.'
My grandfather Max Pam’s is in Vienna, outside the apartment where he and my
grandmother lived.
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
