Stumbling Stones in Hamburg The horror didn’t start in
Auschwitz, Treblinka or in other camps ... ... it started in our
neighborhood, in our house, outside our door. Since 1995,
Cologne based artist Gunter Demnig has been commemorating the
victims of the German Nazi regime through his project
"Stolpersteine” – Stumbling Stones. All over Germany, the artist
has been laying small memorial stones in sidewalks and pavements
outside those houses where the people lived or worked who were
persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime. 2002 the first
Stumbling Stone was laid in Hamburg and many followed ever
since.