New stolpersteine in memory of 21 Holocaust victims.
Rome installed new brass cobblestone memorials to Holocaust victims at locations across the city on Thursday, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig, the memorials are known in German as stolpersteine – translated literally as “stumbling stones” – and are installed outside the last chosen place of residence of victims of the Holocaust.
The brass-capped blocks, which have been added to the hundreds of stolpersteine already present on Rome’s streets, are dedicated to Jews and partisans, including women and children, who were either deported to Auschwitz or killed in Rome.
The first of the 21 new stolptersteine were installed on Thursday was at Via della Marranella 120, in the Prenestino area, in memory of Raffaele Aversa, a Carabinieri officer who was killed in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on 24 March 1944.
The other stolpersteine will be installed in the coming days, as part of the 17th edition of the Memorie d’Inciampo commemorative project, overseen by the Arte in Memoria association.
The new memorials can be found in the historic centre and the Jewish Ghetto as well as on streets around the Nomentano, Trieste and Parioli districts.
For full details of all the names and locations of the new stolpersteine see the Arte in Memoria website. Photo credit: NICOLA MESSANA PHOTOS / Shutterstock.com.
