The Holocaust Victims Who Lived in Our Building

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz we MUST NOT forget

Here are some disturbing facts.

• The Shoah (Holocaust) happened — a vast ethnic cleansing and genocide.
• These acts were instigated by the Nazi right-wing German military dictatorship that murdered up to 16 million civilians,* the majority of them Jewish people.
• The Nazis were assisted in these acts by many collaborators in occupied countries.
• Many people today are ignorant about these acts, and some people today think those acts were a good idea.

Two victims of the Shoah murdered by the Nazis lived where we live today.

One day we returned from a long trip to find two brass plaques installed in front of our building in Prague, Czech Republic. The freshness of the roses indicated the installation was recent — no more than a day earlier.

For those who don’t know, those two brass plaques are Stolpersteine, German for “stumbling stones,” also known as “the stones of the disappeared.” The Stolpersteine project, initiated by German Gunter Demnig in 1992. The project remembers people who were were abducted by the Nazis, sent to concentration camps, and usually murdered…