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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social

2026-09-28 06:19 UTC

The #AfD move to ban ‘stumbling stones’ that commemorate not just Jewish lives taken by the Nazis, but that show where they last lived. Being a Brit I’d not heard of them until now, but I love the psychogeographical nature of their purpose. A chance encounter with them, a means of viewing a street scene through a Time Machine and to read them you must pause and bow your head. They are small but convey so much about the extent of the Holocaust. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm2mm4y5dkko

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  • @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social I always stop and narrate them, like an open book. They are asking to be read. On the front of one house in Berlin the current residents even posted a full timeline including the last letters from the family that was remigrated, as an open memorial.

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  • @teun@kolektiva.social 2026-09-28 06:54

    @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social Fascinating how politicians throughout Europe are foaming at the mouth that pro-Palestine movements are 'antisemitic'… while actual Nazis are doing Holocaust denial. How these people don't implode from cognitive dissonance is beyond me.

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  • @slotos@toot.community 2026-09-28 12:46

    @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social @Tattie@eldritch.cafe > Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again These stones aren’t about Jewish people, they are about German people. So is the ban on them.

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  • @daveybot@mastodon.scot 2026-09-28 13:14

    @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social One was installed in Edinburgh at the end of last year, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jwl08z1n8o

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  • @beemoh@mastodonapp.uk 2026-09-28 13:42

    @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social I've seen a few of these in various parts of the world- astonishingly you will find quite a lot around the part of Amsterdam where Anne Frank's house was, but they're far from scarce elsewhere- their sheer ubiquity does a lot to hit home just how big the Holocaust was, even if you're not stopping and reading the text on every single one.

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