Milan is Memory. Twenty-eight new stumbling blocks in memory of the Milanese victims of the Nazi concentration camps
Milan is Memory. Twenty-eight new stumbling blocks in memory of the Milanese victims of the Nazi concentration camps
The pose on January 15th and 17th in the presence of the creator Gunter Demnig. Ninety cobblestones throughout the city dedicated to those who have not returned from the concentration and extermination camps. Bertolé: “Remembering is even more important today in the face of the awakening in Europe, and not only, of dangerous ideas, movements and nostalgias”
Milan, January 13 2020 - Twenty-eight new Stumbling Stones in memory of as many Milanese victims of the concentration camps. Sampietrini, small square blocks covered in brass that remember the name, the year of birth, the day and place of death, will be placed on Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 January in 21 city streets, in correspondence with the homes of those deported to the concentration camps who did not return to their homes, in the presence among others of the creator of the Stones, the Berlin artist Gunter Demnig.
Presenting the initiative, which will bring to 90 the number of Stumbling Stones laid from 2017 to today in Milan, were this morning in the Council Chamber at Palazzo Marino the president of the municipal council Lamberto Bertolé, the senator for life Liliana Segre and the president of the Stumbling Stones Committee Marco Steiner.
“The laying of new Stumbling Stones in our city is an opportunity to renew our commitment to remember – declares the President of the City Council Lamberto Bertolé -. We will do this by involving the youngest, trying to counter any attempt to deny or downplay the atrocity of what happened and the great responsibilities that made that tragedy possible. Remembering is even more important today in the face of the awakening in Europe, and beyond, of dangerous ideas, movements and nostalgias."
"When we set up the 'Stumbling Stones' Committee in September 2016 - Milan - comments President Marco Steiner - we hoped to be able to count on the sharing and support of the City Council. This is how it was and we hope it will continue to be be. Every single stone represents a warning so that what happened will never be repeated again. The Stumbling Stones Committee is aware that it will not be able to commemorate all the fallen Milanese citizens. The commitment is aimed above all at those victims who no longer have anyone to remember them."
Present since 1990, today in Europe there are over 75 thousand Stumbling Stones in 26 countries: a widespread monument, born from the intuition of the Berlin artist Gunter Demnig and also grown thanks to word of mouth as a reaction to every form of denialism and oblivion, for remember all the victims of National-Socialism, whatever the reason for the persecution: religion, race, political ideas, sexual orientations.
Attached are the names and biographies of the people who will be remembered with the new registrations and the calendar of poses.
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Updated: 13/01/2020