Laying stumbling stones
For the third consecutive year, in cooperation with the Jewish Cultural Centre Ljubljana, we are running the project of placing commemorative markings into the pavement, the so-called stumbling stones – Stolpersteine, initiated by German artist Günter Demnig to commemorate holocaust victims.
This time seventeen stumbling stones were laid in commemoration of the members of the Bader, Wohlfeiler, Ebenspanger/Mikolaš, Oblat, Pollak and Bolaffio families, who were holocaust victims.
We are laying stumbling stones to remember Jewish citizens of Ljubljana who were due to their descent taken from their homes to different concentration camps across Europe during World War II. The brass-plated stumbling stones with engraved personal data of individual victims are now placed in over hundred cities in Europe, among others in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. In Slovenia stumbling stones can be found, in addition to Ljubljana, in Maribor, Lendava and Murska Sobota.