Hortense Jeitteles
In Stuttgart, the Hortense Jeitteles Stolperstein lies flush with the pavement as a small memorial to a persecuted person. A brass plate carries Hortense Jeitteles’s name and life dates on a ten-centimetre concrete cube.
German artist Gunter Demnig initiated the Stolpersteine project in 1992, placing each stone where victims once lived freely. Across Germany and other European countries, these markers commemorate people targeted by Nazi persecution. Jewish victims, Sinti and Roma, Poles, homosexual people, disabled people, and Jehovah’s Witnesses are among those remembered.
The pavement keeps this memorial at walking level, where one person’s history meets an ordinary route.
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