ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the discursive construction of a particular form of Holocaust memorial-the Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stone) project. This form of memorial is the brainchild of the German artist Gunter Demnig and consists of placing small copper cobble stones engraved with the name of a person deported from Germany during the Nazi regime in the pavement in front of the former place of residence of the deported person.1 When possible, the placing of the stumble stone is accompanied by a ceremony to which the families of the deported persons, local schoolchildren, educators and public officials are invited to participate and speak. This type of memorial raises a series of questions concerning the discursive construction and meanings for the different constituents involved in this particular memorial process. The current examination utilises a case study, linguistic landscape methodology to investigate one particular stone-setting ceremony that took place in Wurzburg, Germany, in July 2011 for Alfred and Hella Hanauer who were deported to Riga and murdered in 1941.
