stolperstein

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Stolperstein (literally “stumbling block”), from stolpern (“to stumble”) +‎ Stein (“stone”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɒlpə(ɹ)ˌʃtaɪn/, /ˈstɒlpə(ɹ)ˌstaɪn/

Noun

stolperstein (plural stolpersteins or stolpersteine)

  1. A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism.
    • 2014 February 7, Evertjan. , “One son, Bertram, missed that boat ...”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎ (Usenet):
      A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.
    • 2014 April 28, Dechucka , “Re: Another World-Wide Holohoax Promo”, in aus.politics‎ (Usenet):
      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, mentally/physically retarded people who were there in 1932 go to?
    • 2022 December 23, Rebecca Schmid, “An Orchestra Reflects on War and Its Aftermath”, in The New York Times‎:
      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.
    • 2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      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.

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