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Borrowed from German Stolperstein (字義どおりに “stumbling block”), from stolpern (“to stumble”) + Stein (“stone”).
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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/19 07:24 UTC 版)
Stolperstein is the German word for "stumbling block", "obstacle", or "something in the way". The artist Gunter Demnig has given this word a new meaning, that of a small, cobblestone-sized memorial for a single victim of Nazism. These memorials commemorate those deported and killed by the Nazis, mostly in Nazi concentration camps or extermination camps. The vast majority of victims were Jews, including more than 1.5 million Jewish children, but other victims of the Nazis included Sinti and Romani people (also called gypsies), members of the Resistance during World War II, 4,500 homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians in opposition to the Nazis and the disabled. The list of cities that have stolpersteine now extends to several countries and hundreds of cities and towns.