stolperstein

plural stolpersteins · plural stolpersteine · alternative Stolperstein

1. A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism.

   A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.

   2014 February 7, Evertjan. [username], “One son, Bertram, missed that boat ...”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)

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   BTW what happened to all those people whose stolpersteins I saw last time in Koln and Berlin and where did the all those Jews,gypsies,^([sic]) mentally/physically retarded people who were there in 1932 go to?

   2014 April 28, Dechucka [username], “Re: Another World-Wide Holohoax Promo”, in aus.politics (Usenet)

   In 2023, Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones” for the 16 lost members will be laid in the sidewalk in front of their former homes in the Austrian capital.

   2022 December 23, Rebecca Schmid, “An Orchestra Reflects on War and Its Aftermath”, in The New York Times

   Seen this way, eponyms might be compared to the modern German tradition of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones”— brass plaques, embedded in cobblestone streets across Europe, that commemorate Holocaust victims by listing their names and the date they were seized from their homes.

   2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

plural Stolpersteins · plural Stolpersteine

1. Alternative letter-case form of stolperstein.

   But it was Lucie’s stone that chilled me to the core. Hers is a single memorial stone in front of a large building. One little Stolperstein.

   2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN