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Volunteers aim to clean all Holocaust memorial plaques in Brussels ahead of Yom HaShoah
Students in Brussels have appealed to all citizens to join in cleaning all 458 Stolpersteine in the city in memory of Holocaust victims
April 27, 2022 14:40
Students in Brussels have appealed to all citizens to join in cleaning all 458 Stolpersteine in the city in memory of Holocaust victims
April 27, 2022 14:40Volunteers are aiming to clean all 458 Stolpersteine (or “Stumbling Stones”) in Brussels ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which starts on Wednesday evening.
The student-led organisation ‘Make Their Memory Shine’ has organised teams of volunteers from all walks to life to join them in cleaning the stones laid across the Belgian capital.
A Stolpersteine is a ten-centimetre concrete cube laid in the ground with a brass plate inscribed with the name and dates of life of a victim of Nazi genocide, and approximately 90,000 have been laid across Europe since 1992 outside the last chosen place of residence or work of a victim of the Holocaust.
Volunteers across the city spent the day making the stones shine (European Jewish Press)
