New Stolpersteine in Prague

On September 16 and 17, fifty-one new Stolpersteine were laid at twenty-five locations in Prague. With this act, the city once again commemorated the victims of the Nazi regime and their stories.

The Stolpersteine project makes a significant contribution to society’s living memory – it draws attention to the horrors and crimes of Nazism and restores to the public space the names of those who were silenced.

The laying of the stones is requested not only by the victims’ relatives but often also by civic organizations or even the homeowners themselves. Each stone thus becomes a small act of remembrance – a tribute to a specific person and their symbolic return home.

Among the figures honored with Stolpersteine this year were, for example, Pavel Tigrid and Karel Švenk, the author of the Terezín anthem.

Pokládání kamenů se tradičně účastní řada významných osobností. Letos mezi ně patřili velvyslanci Německa a Rakouska, starosta Prahy 7, zastupitelé Magistrátu hl. města Prahy a městských částí Praha 2 a Praha 3, ředitelé Česko-německého fondu budoucnosti, ředitelka Národního pedagogického muzea a mnoho dalších.

Among the important witnesses to the laying of Stolpersteine were also children from the Lauder Schools.

Over the past thirteen years, approximately 880 Stolpersteine have been laid in Prague. Their locations and the stories of individual victims can be found at www.stolpersteinecz.cz.