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.
Veronika Spira, of the Metropolitan Public Education Development Foundation, said the pupils had found almost a hundred potential sites for the stumbling blocks, but all were submitted to a rigorous check by the historian László Karsai, who could verify with 100 percent accuracy only the 36 sites.
Around 11,000 of the stumbling blocks are to be found in several countries around Europe. The first ones in Hungary were installed in Ráday utca, in Budapest, in April.
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."
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
