Mahnmal für NSU-Opfer
Mahnmal für NSU-Opfer stands in Dortmund near the Steinwache, a site associated with Nazi atrocities and historical remembrance. The wheelchair-accessible memorial creates a quiet place with benches and plane trees. A polished basalt strip follows the ground, guiding your view towards a tall stele. Its surface records the names, home cities and murder dates of ten victims.
Artist Gesa Köster shaped the basalt into a ten-metre line, twenty centimetres wide, narrowing from fifty to twenty-five centimetres high. The stone leads directly to a two-metre stele. That structure measures one hundred twenty centimetres wide and twenty centimetres thick. A single engraved line expresses shame and sorrow for murders driven by contempt for humanity. Mehmet Kubasik, a Dortmund kiosk owner, is among those remembered after his murder in 2006. His family attended the unveiling, giving the site a direct connection to Dortmund’s community and loss.
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