«Stumbling Stones» in Ukraine: How the Names of Holocaust Victims are Being Restored Even During the War
On October 26, 2026, four small memorial plaques were installed in Kyiv in memory of the Jewish Hornstein family, destroyed by the Nazis in Babyn Yar in September 1941. The ceremony on Pankivska Street became another event of the international project Stolpersteine — "Stumbling Stones", which has been operating in Ukraine for seventeen years and continues to develop during the full-scale Russian war.
For NAnews — Israel News | Nikk.Agency this is an occasion to talk about the project itself, its creator, Ukrainian participants, and the people whose biographies have been restored. In our "History and Facts" section we turn to documents and events linking the history of Ukraine, the Jewish people, and Israel. Stolpersteine is interesting because behind a small plaque in the sidewalk lies a separate study, and sometimes years of work to find evidence of a long-lost family.
Author: The NAnews editorial team
How a German artist invented a memorial that does not rise above people
The Stolpersteine project originated in Germany in the early 1990s. Its author is artist Gunter Demnig, who conceived an unusual form of memory for the victims of National Socialism. The first memorial…
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