The "stumbling blocks" are small brass plates mounted on concrete cubes embedded in the pavement in front of homes of those who perished in the Holocaust. The plates bear the name of the victim and some information about the victim's life.
The blocks are the brainchild of the German artists Günther Demnig, who said they "allow remembrance to take place where ostracism began - in the last place of residence."
The first block is to be placed in front of a home in Budapest's Ráday utca at the end of April.
The project is being organised by the Berlin-based psychologist Agnes Berger, who has spent years researching the impact of collective remembrance of people's identities, and the Bipolar Programme for German-Hungarian Cultural Cooperation, a Federal Cultural Foundation initiative designed to give new impetus to Hungarian-German relations. Bipolar will pay for the placement of the first 50 blocks.
Thousands of the blocks are to be found in cities in Germany and other countries in Europe.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
