Gunter Demnig wears a jeans shirt, a red kerchief around his neck, a waistcoat full of pockets and a wide-brimmed hat. He looks like a cowboy, but instead he is a sculptor. Convinced that art must leave museums to speak to the people, he has created Europe’s largest widespread monument: the stumbling stones, tens of thousands of small, brass-coated concrete blocks placed on the pavements in front of the last homes of the victims of Nazi-Fascist persecution. From there, those innocents were snatched from their lives: from there, today, their names engraved on the brass plaques of the ‘Stolpersteine’ tell their story. A fiction book for children aged 9 and up interested in stories that help them understand the past, read the present and inspire the future.
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