With backing from the local Jewish community, the city council of Munich voted to uphold a ban on the cobblestone-shaped plaques commemorating Holocaust victims, The Local reported.
The decision came after about 100,000 people in the city had signed a petition calling for the lifting of the ban of these “stolpersteine,” or “stumbling blocks,” designed by German artist Gunter Demnig in 1996.
Instead, the city will allow these small commemorations to Holocaust victims on the walls of the houses where the victims once lived, according to the report.
The decision on Wednesday was apparently a compromise between opponents of lifting the ban, like Knopbloch, and supporters, including Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter and a city cultural adviser, who believed the plaques should have been incorporated into a “network of cultural remembrance.”
The Algemeiner
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