By: Scott Newton, Head of School of Law, SOAS

Scott Newton, Head of School of Law, SOAS — Tue, 19 May 2020 16:54:50 +0000

gratifying to learn that the stolpersteine have become so institutionalised and interwoven into the fabric of local life and memory across such geographic breadth and diversity– unique in the vicissitudes and discontents of contemporary commemorative culture and well done you for bringing the whole phenomenon to scholarly attention and analysis– “minumentality”– always puts me in mind of Sebald…

By: Julie Billaud

Julie Billaud — Mon, 18 May 2020 09:05:14 +0000

When I lived in Berlin a few years ago, my friends Joseph (from Canada) and James (from the US) organized the sponsoring of a ‘Stolpersteine’ memorial in honor of two unknown neighbors of theirs who had been deported during the holocaust. None of us was related to these two sisters in any personal way but this impromptu memorial felt like we were doing our part in keeping their memory and more largely the memory of the holocaust alive. This post reminds me of this gesture of collective resistance against oblivion.

My friend Joseph also wrote about it on his blog:
http://needleberlin.com/2016/10/19/sponsoring-stolpersteine/?fbclid=IwAR0LCu0uR6MT4_L71IIjfzJaYjI-he8T-xyZ8rFVQDdNcZfQUg6ztOnRvpc

Comments on: Lieux chargés: afterlives of Stolpersteine

By: Scott Newton, Head of School of Law, SOAS

By: Julie Billaud