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Art and remembrance--20 years of Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Frankfurt on the Main and 23 years of the Library of Generations
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November 11, 2023, marked the 20th anniversary of the first Stolperstein (stumbling stone) being laid in Frankfurt on the Main by the artist Gunter Demnig. Three years before this first Stolperstein was laid, the artist Sigrid Sigurdsson launched the "Library of Generations" remembrance project. Under the motto "Art and Remembrance--20 Years of Stumbling Stones in Frankfurt am Main and 23 Years of the Library of Generations", a public event will take place on November 30, 2023, at which members of the Frankfurt Stumbling Stone Initiative will look back on 20 years of work on their project. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Gunter Demnig (artist), DW Dreysse (co-initiator of the Stumbling Stone Initiative), Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt/Memory Studies), Dr. Jan Gerchow (Historical Museum Frankfurt), Dr. Martin Dill & Annika Wagner (Initiative Stolpersteine Frankfurt). The moderator will be Dr. Angela Jannelli (Historical Museum Frankfurt).
The event begins on Thursday, November 30, 2023, at 6:30 pm in the Leopold Sonnemann Hall in the Historical Museum Frankfurt.
Admission is free; registration is not required.