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The stumbling blocksaccording to the senator for life Liliana Segre, “they tell stories of people who have no memory”. They are those stone blocks covered in brass positioned in front of the homes of people deported to Nazi concentration camps, where they met their death. This is an initiative launched in 1992 by the German artist Gunther Demingprecisely with the aim of honoring the memory of the victims of Holocaust. On the occasion of Remembrance Day, Wired has built a map of the stumbling blocks placed in our country, built from the Wikipedia page dedicated to them.
Each bubble represents one of 254 municipalities Italians in which at least one has been placed. The bigger it is, the more stumbling blocks are placed. The filter in the lower part (top left for those reading from the desk) allows you to isolate a single region on the map.
With 384 is Rome the city with the most stumbling blocks, followed by Venice with 159 and from Milan with 145. More generally, the municipalities that have positioned them to remember the victims of the Holocaust are found above all in the northern regions, i.e. those where the Nazi occupation lasted the longest.
Well 96 they are in fact found in Lombardyfollowed by 43 of theEmilia Romagna and give it 29 of the Piedmont. In total they are 2.148 the stumbling blocks present in Italy. The first appeared in Rome on January 28th of the 2010 in viale Giulio Cesare 103, to commemorate the deportation of 2 thousand carabinieriand in via della Reginella 2. Hence the October 16, 1943were deported Grace of Signs, Judith And Ada Spizzichino with the daughter Rossana Calò just two years old. Transfer to Auschwitz, were killed between the autumn of the same year and the summer of the following. Now a stumbling block reminds him of his assassination by the Nazis.
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