ABSTRACT
Stolpersteine provide knowledge in fragments. In themselves, they are not particularly informative, but at a time when Germans’ interest in the history of Nazi Germany is declining (Heitmeyer 2009, 141, 148), they create a symbolic link between the present and the past. Researchers and passers-by acquire a connection to the living environment of a victim: where she grew up, went to school, raised a family or established a business, and was ostracised by her neighbours, which made it possible to deport her to be murdered out of sight. They share a space with particular victims and thereby may be able to convey a sense of the ordinariness of Nazi Germany.
