(Jewish Group) Giant Holocaust project marks 100,000-plaque milestone

[Behind the Aegis]

The world's largest grassroots Holocaust memorial project has laid its 100,000th personalised plaque, as the US ambassador to Germany honoured her family members who fled the Nazis with an emotional ceremony.

When sculptor Gunter Demnig started the Stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks", initiative three decades ago, he had little idea it would spread to more than 20 countries in Europe and crystallise many of the fraught contemporary questions around historical remembrance.

Each block, or Stolperstein, the size of a cobblestone, bears a stark engraving with the name of a victim, birthdate, date of deportation or escape and, if known, date and place of death.

The shiny brass of the plaques, embedded in the pavement in front of the victim's last home, catches the light, encouraging passers-by to stop and read the small inscriptions.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. I've been watching FDR on the History Channel this week

and have been noticing that the numbers keep increasing as more info is discovered and put together from 80+ years ago. That is a Herculean task that will never be fully completed. 5he most recent numbers of the number killed in concentration camps is
"An estimated 17 million people were murdered by the German Nazi regime and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945, according to data published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The estimates are based on the regime’s own reports as well as demographic studies of population loss during World War II. The latest estimate of the number of homosexual victims is based on research by German historian Alexander Zinn, who carried out extensive research on this group of victims."

17 MILLION!!!!!

https://www.statista.com/chart/24024/number-of-victims-nazi-regime/