Stolpersteine.cz

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Stolpersteine.cz (also Stolpersteine.cz - Kameny zmizelých or written with a capital .CZ ) was a registered association and web portal that coordinated and organized the laying of Stolpersteine in cooperation with Gunter Demnig's project Stolpersteine.eu in the Czech Republic created its own database with laid stumbling blocks and short biographies of the victims. This was documented on the association's (now archived) website.

history

Independently of each other, students in Kolín and Jewish students in Prague came up with the idea of running Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein project in the Czech Republic . After all, it was Česká unie židovské mládeže (Czech Union of Jewish Students) that took the initiative and implemented the idea by launching the Stolpersteine.cz project. The first stones were laid in both cities in 2008, at that time under the patronage of the Prague Mayor, and since then the laying has also taken place in other places.

Name in Czech

The German word “Stolpersteine”, which is in the name of the Stolpersteine.cz association, is also used in Czech to denote the stumbling blocks themselves. The term Kameny zmizelých ("Stones of the Disappeared"), which is sometimes used as a description of the stumbling blocks (and often appears as an additional term in the name of the association), was based on the award-winning project Zmizelí sousedé ("Disappeared Neighbors"). This was brought into being by the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1999. After a while, both terms were used in the media, alternatively and sometimes in parallel, until recently. This happens regardless of whether the stones were laid by G. Demnig himself or by other initiators: the encyclopedia of the city of Brno reports on the laying in Brno on June 9, 2010, in which G. Demnig took part, and uses both terms; About the relocation in Brno on July 19, 2013, which was not carried out by G. Demnig, the term “stumbling blocks” can also be found in the report of the Czech television, this also in the report of the Prague Jewish Community (October 15, 2015) or of the Brno Encyclopedia (June 27, 2016).

The so-called “stumbling blocks” that have emerged recently also have an equivalent in the Czech Republic; in Czech they are called “hromadné Kameny stumbling blocks” (mass or group stones stumbling blocks).

activity

The portal saw itself as part of Gunter Demnig's international project and the activities of the association were accordingly: in collaboration with the German association Stolpersteine, it organized and coordinated the laying of the Stolpersteine ​​in the Czech Republic. This also included researching the victims and the approvals of the applications from local authorities. The transfer often took place in the personal presence of Gunter Demnig, even in very small communities.

The focus was on remembering the victims of National Socialism from the Czech Republic, whereby in addition to Jewish victims - as in Germany - also victims among the Roma , homosexuals, politically persecuted and resistance fighters, Jehovah's Witnesses and others are included. Therefore, the association not only cooperated with institutions such as Yad Vashem , but also with the Theresienstadt database, with various Roma associations, with local initiatives, etc.

The project created its own database with data records on all stumbling blocks laid in the Czech Republic up to around 2013/2014, including the most important data on the people. These contain at least the information on birth, date of death, transports and last whereabouts. Around 2013/2014 there were well over 400 stones in Prague, Brno , Kolín , Lomnice u Tišnova , Olomouc , Teplice , Třeboň , Neratovice , Moravian Ostrava and other cities. For this purpose, the project also worked with various administrative authorities as well as with mayors of the municipalities, district offices and monument protection. The activity of the project found positive echo in numerous regional and national media.

Project resolution

While there were several reports about the laying of Stolpersteine.cz in the Czech media up to 2013 with the participation of the Stolpersteine.cz association (when the Stolpersteine.cz association was laid in Prague on July 24, 2013, Stolpersteine.cz was explicitly mentioned as the initiator of the campaign), for 2014 there was only one announcement to find for September. In October 2015 the editors of the Federace židovských obcí (Federation of Jewish Communities), Židovské listy (Jewish newspapers), reported on a " hibernation " (i.e. hibernation) of the Stolpersteine.cz project, with which no communication was possible, and that efforts, the project to animate, until then bore no fruit. The domain will be for sale from May 12, 2016.

After the termination of the Stolpersteine.cz project, the relocations will be organized by various, particularly local, associations (such as the beautification associations or the Sokol association ) and increasingly by local associations of the Kehila Jewish community. The old websites of the Stolpersteine.cz project from 2008 are partially archived and accessible.

From the summer of 2018, a British citizen who had been living in Prague for a long time voluntarily took care of the stumbling blocks in Prague. Also from 2018, an “Association for the Support of Persons Affected by the Holocaust” ( Veřejně prospěšný spolek na podporu osob dotčených holocaustem ) took over the patronage of the laying of the stumbling blocks in Prague; the website under “stolpersteinecz.cz” has a striking resemblance to the old website from 2008 “stolpersteine.cz”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Report of the Stolpersteine.cz association, online at: Stolpersteine ​​in the Czech Republic ( Memento from October 15, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ O nás , self-profile of the Zmizelí soudsedé project, server of the Jewish Museum Prague, online at: jewishmuseum.cz/… (English)
  3. ↑ Zmizelí sousedé project , information on the project, online at: jewishmuseum.cz/
  4. ↑ stumbling blocks - kameny zmizelých Zidu, Romů, homosexuálů, Odbojářů a ďalších , Portal ProCulture, online at: proculture.cz/... ( Memento of 26 April 2017 Internet Archive ); Stolperstein pro Josefa Růžičku , report from the Swedish embassy in Prague, online at: udweb202.ud.episerverhosting /… ; Ani Krnov nezapomněl. Mosazné destičky připomínají zavražděné , iDnes portal, online at: ostrava.idnes.cz/… ; STOLPERSTEINE CZ , invitation from the Stolpersteine.cz project, online at: akcuj.cz/… ; Oběti holokaustu připomínají další Kameny, o které se klopýtá , Lidovky from June 12, 2010, online at: lidovky.cz/… ; Kameny zmizelých připomínají na jižní Moravě už 66 osudů , deník.cz, online at: brnensky.denik.cz/…
  5. ↑ Kostky v dlažbě k uctění památky holocaustu (tzv. "Stumbling blocks", též "Kameny zmizelých") , in: Encyclopedia of the City of Brno, report from June 9, 2010, online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz/…
  6. ↑ Kameny zmizelých připomenou dalších čtrnáct obětí holocaustu , report by the TV station Česká televize from July 19, 2013, online at: ceskatelevize.cz/… ; Kameny zmizelých (stumbling blocks) , overview of the Prague Jewish Community, online at: zob.cz/ ; Umístění dalších tzv. "Kamenů zmizelých" (též "Stumbling Blocks") v Brně , in: Encyclopedia of the City of Brno, report from June 27, 2016, online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz/…
  7. ↑ Sbírka - Kámen zmizelých , report of the Židovská obec Olomouc (Jewish Community of Olomouc) on a collection for a trip threshold , online at: kehila-olomouc.cz/
  8. ↑ International project , online at: web.archive.org/…/www.stolpersteine.cz/…/mezinarodni-projekt ( Memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (only archived in Czech)
  9. ↑ Úvodem , information online at: web.archive.org/…/www.stolpersteine.cz/cs/o-projektu ( memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (only archived in Czech)
  10. ↑ Markéta Radová, Ani Krnov nezapomněl. Mosazné destičky připomínají zavražděné , report on Demnig's stone laying in Krnov, news portal idnes July 30, 2013, online at: ostrava.idnes.cz/…
  11. ↑ Stolpersteine.cz, announcement, online at: akcuj.cz/…
  12. ↑ Meaning and message , information from the Stolpersteine.cz project, online at: web.archive.org/…/www.stolpersteine.cz/…/smysl-a-poselstvi ( Memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (only in Czech archived)
  13. ↑ Oběti holokaustu připomínají dalšíkomy, o které se klopýtá , report of the magazine Lidové noviny from June 12, 2010, online at: lidovky.cz/
  14. ^ The database of Theresienstadt prisoners , online at: katalog.terezinstudies.cz/…
  15. ↑ Objevily se nové Kameny zmizelých , report of the portal Praha.eu, online at: praha.eu/…
  16. ↑ STOLPERSTEINE CZ , invitation to the stumbling stone laying on September 12, 2014, online at: facebook.com/events/…
  17. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​CZ ve stavu hibernace. Záslužný projekt chce oživit Federace židovských obcí , in: Židovské listy, magazine of the Federace židovských obcí (Federation of Jewish Communities), online at: zidovskelisty.blog.cz/
  18. ↑ Volné - expirované domény na prodej (domains that have become free from May 12, 2016, displayed on March 22, 2017), online at: volnedomenynaprodej.cz/ ( Memento from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ See for example the Lomnice Beautification Society ( Stolpersteine ​​v Lomnici , online at: oslomnice.cz/… ) or the current 2016 Znojmo Beautification Society ( První Kameny zapomenutých ve Znojmě , online at: okraspol.sweb.cz/… )
  20. ^ Project Stolpersteine ​​(Kameny zmizelých) Brno , report of the association of July 19, 2013, online at: sokol.cz/
  21. ↑ Stolpersteine , an overview of the Jewish community in Olomouc about the stumbling blocks in Olomouc, online at: kehila-olomouc.cz / ...
  22. ↑ See Stolpersteine.cz ( Memento from November 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Albína Mrázová, in: Respekt from July 23, 2018, cited above. to Kehila, Židovská obec v Praze (Jewish community in Prague), online at: kehilaprag.cz / ...
  24. ↑ The association's website can be accessed at: stolpersteinecz.cz/

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