<story><title>Stolperstein</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uniqueuid</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an awesome idea, because it brings the painful past right into our daily lives. You&amp;#x27;re forced to serendipituously &amp;quot;stumble&amp;quot; across them every now and then.&lt;p&gt;The stories on them, told in a brief phrase, are mostly heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, always relevant. &amp;quot;Executed for making fun of the Führer&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Deported and gassed for hiding Jewish neighbors&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Survived concentration camp but parents, siblings and relatives did not make it out alive&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klaster_1</author><text>The idea to put a bit more info about the person was brilliant, even a single sentence makes you relate more. There is a similar project in Russia called The Last Address [1], I see these a lot (but probably not enough) in the Saint-Petersburg historical center, and although being a similar age and area of expertise to lots of victims helps, even a brief summary of their &amp;quot;wrongdoings&amp;quot; would go a long way enriching the perspective on our history, especially given current political climate here. &amp;quot;A 30 years old engineer lived here&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t ring as close as &amp;quot;a 30 years old engineer who lived here was murdered by the state for a crime of opposing the oppressive regime&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Last_Address&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Last_Address&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Stolperstein</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uniqueuid</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an awesome idea, because it brings the painful past right into our daily lives. You&amp;#x27;re forced to serendipituously &amp;quot;stumble&amp;quot; across them every now and then.&lt;p&gt;The stories on them, told in a brief phrase, are mostly heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, always relevant. &amp;quot;Executed for making fun of the Führer&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Deported and gassed for hiding Jewish neighbors&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Survived concentration camp but parents, siblings and relatives did not make it out alive&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boffinAudio</author><text>Here in Liesing, Austria, I walked past a stolperstein this morning, which sits at the entrance to a local Billa (supermarket), which is a new construction on a site where I suppose the victim of Nazi aggression lived before being taken to a concentration camp to perish.&lt;p&gt;Although I see these stones all over Vienna, and find myself in contemplation every single time I see them elsewhere around Europe, it is even more jarring to see them in a seemingly random outer suburb&amp;#x2F;town of the region at the footstep of a local grocery store, and is a severely jarring reminder of the atrocities that occurred in this land, not so long ago.&lt;p&gt;I wish Australia, my native land, would have the courage to do something similar to highlight the atrocities we committed there, on the original peoples.  Alas, Australian war hubris is too heavy to pierce that veil ..</text></comment>