Since December 2014, the STOLPERSTEINE, STOLPERSCHWELLEN, and REMEMBRANCE STONES have been organizationally and operationally managed by the non-profit FOUNDATION – TRACES – Gunter Demnig.
The Foundation – TRACES – GUNTER DEMNIG preserves the ideas and life's work of the artist Gunter Demnig. The STOLPERSTEINE project is at the center of this effort. Its focus is to keep the memory of the victims of National Socialism alive worldwide by integrating brass memorial plaques flush with the pavement of the sidewalk in front of their last freely chosen place of residence or other designated locations. These memorial stones commemorate the fate of people who were persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled, or driven to suicide during the Nazi era.
A key aspect of this is the involvement of children and young people in the project to make the culture of remembrance tangible and to implement it concretely. The Stolpersteine document the life stories of people who were persecuted under National Socialism. The inscriptions are researched and verified together with local initiatives and the corresponding archives. After the installation, the biographies are entered into a database. Other tasks of the foundation include the maintenance and possible presentation of works from Gunter Demnig's oeuvre – especially those works that can be considered as precursors to the STOLPERSTEINE art project.
On our website, you will find all further information about our ArtMonument STOLPERSTEINE, which grows daily thanks to the many interested and committed people who are working against forgetting.