Stumbling stones in Milan: the Stolpersteine map

What are stumbling blocks and where are they located in Milan? Today, in this special on CityDoorMilano.it, we take you to the discovery of the "Stolpersteine" present in our city, an important project to keep alive the memory of all the people deported and killed in concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust.

WHAT ARE STUMBLING STONES?

The stumbling blocks ("Stolpersteine" in German) are small square blocks of stone measuring 10x10 centimeters, placed in front of the door of the house where the person deported to the concentration and extermination camps by the Nazis last resided. The name, year of birth, day and place of deportation, date of death of the victim are written on the stone.

The initiative was born thanks to the German artist Gunter Demnig, born in Berlin in 1947, and the first stone was laid in Cologne in 1995. Since then, more than 70,000 have been placed throughout Europe, for a total of over 2,000 cities involved between Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Holland, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and Hungary.

The first Italian stumbling blocks were laid in Rome in 2010, followed over time by Bolzano, Genoa, L'Aquila, Livorno, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Siena, Turin, Venice and other smaller towns. In Milan the first six stumbling blocks were laid in January 2017, followed by another twenty-six at the beginning of 2018 ... today the Ambrosian city has about ninety.

Before moving on to the map dedicated to the stumbling blocks present on Milanese soil, we report the phrase from the Talmud that inspired Gunter Demnig more than any other: "A person is forgotten only when his name is forgotten".

WHERE ARE THE TRIPPING STONES IN MILAN? THE MAP

• Gianluigi Banfi, via dei Chiostri 2 (2017)
• Adele Basevi Lombroso, via Vespri Siciliani 71 (2017)
• Dante Coen, via Plinio 20 (2017)
• Melchiorre De Giuli, via Milazzo 4 (2017)
• Giuseppe Lenzi, via Spontini 8 (2017)
• Alberto Segre, corso Magenta 55 (2017)
• Angelo Aglieri, viale Monza 23 (2018)
• Giuseppe Berna, via privata Hermada 4 (2018)
• Michelangelo Böhm e Margherita Luzzatto Böhm, via De Amicis 45 (2018)
• Emma Bovi, via Bezzecca 1 (2018)
• Enzo Capitano, via Stradella 13 (2018)
• Ernesto Reinach, Ugo De Benedetti, Etta De Benedetti Reinach e Piero De Benedetti, via De Togni 10 (2018)
• Antonio De Giorgi, via Borgonuovo 5 (2018)
• Augusto Silla Fabbri, via dei Cinquecento 20 (2018)
• Cesare Fano e Silvia Usigli Fano, via Corridoni 1 (2018)
• William Finzi, via Conca del Naviglio 7 (2018)
• Angelo Fiocchi, viale Lombardia 65 (2018)
• Raffaele Gilardino, viale Piceno 33 (2018)
• Romeo Locatelli, viale Caldara 11 (2018)
• Giuseppe Malagodi, via Marcona 34 (2018)
• Alessandro Moneta, piazza Cadorna 15 (2018)
• Odorico Piperno, Livia Sinigaglia Piperno, Rambaldo Pieperno e Renzo Piperno, via Bizzoni 7 (2018)
• Giuseppe Pogatschnig, via Sarfatti 25 (2018)
• Otto Popper, via Mengoni 2 (2018)

• Guglielmo Barbò, via Visconti di Modrone 20 (2019)
• Egidio Bertazzoni, via Mompiani 10 (2019)
• Umberto Chionna, via C. Farini 35 (2019)
• Ferruccio Codé, via Catullo 10 (2019)
• Ambrogio Colombo ed Enrico Pozzoli, via C. Farini 5 (2019)
• Edgardo Finzi, via Filippino Lippi 33 (2019)
• Giulia Forti Basevi, via F.lli Bronzetti 33 (2019)
• Raffaello Giolli, via Giuriati 16 (2019)
• Fausto Levi, via Sant'Andrea 14 (2019)
• Giuseppe Levi, via V. Foppa 11 (2019)
• Luigi Luinetti, via Albertinelli 5 (2019)
• Ugo Milla, via Natale Battaglia 41 (2019)
• Francesco Moschettini, via Giuriati 17 (2019)
• Gino Emanuele Neppi, via R. Boscovich 30 (2019)
• Giorgio Norsa, via L. Necchi 14 (2019)
• Virginio Rioli, via della Pergola 1 (2019)
• Franco Rovida, piazzale Cuoco 7 (2019)
• Jenide Russo, via Paisiello 7 (2019)
• Giuseppe Segre e Olga Lövvy, corso Magenta 55 (2019)
• Ezio Setti, viale Corsica 43 (2019)
• Lelio Silvera, Bahia Laniado Silvera e Violetta Silvera, viale Monte Rosa 18 (2019)
• Piero Sonnino, viale Cirene 5 (2019)

• Mino Steiner, viale Bianca Maria 7 (2019)
• Luigi Vacchini, piazza Beccaria 19 (2019)
• Guido Zamatto e Livia Bianchini Zamatto, via C. Correnti 12 (2019)
• Costantino Codini, via Ceresio 3 (2020)
• Corinna Corinaldi Segre, viale Bianca Maria 21 (2020)
• Eugenia Cuzzeri Caminada, via della Sila 27 (2020)
• Giovanni Dolfi, via Principe Eugenio 15 (2020)
• Pio Foà, Enrica Foà e Giorgio Foà, via Carlo Botta 15 (2020)
• Antonia Frigerio Conte, via S. Eufemia 19 (2020)
• Romeo Garotta, viale Gian Galeazzo 8 (2020)
• Antonio Gentili, via Paravia 84 (2020)
• Oreste Giudici, via Salvator Rosa 13 (2020)
• Giorgio Goldschmiedt e Jole Camerini Goldschmiedt, via Faruffini 13 (2020)
• Frieda Lehmann, via Malpighi 4 (2020)
• Roberto Lepetit, via Benedetto Marcello 8 (2020)
• Davide Pedretti, via Barnaba Oriani 54 (2020)
• Mario Provasi, via Palmieri 22 (2020)
• Giorgio Puecher Passavalli, via Broletto 39 (2020)
• Anna Rabinoff Schweinöster, via Mario Pagano 50 (2020)

• Umberto Recalcati, viale Bligny 26 (2020)
• Andrea Schivo, piazza Filangieri 2 (2020)
• Gian Natale Suglia Passeri, via Mario Pagano 42 (2020)
• Bohor Nahman Varon, Sara Attias Varon, Hasdai Varon, Dora Varon e Leone Varon, via dei Cinquecento 19 (2020)
• Luigi Villa, via Romolo Gessi 8 (2020)
• Vincenzo Aulisio, via Castelmorrone 4 (2021)
• Luigi Azria, via Pomposa 4 (2021)
• Carlo Bianchi, via Villoresi 24 (2021)
• Sebastiano Cappello, via Ausonio 20 (2021)
• Arturo Colombo, via Cappellini 16 (2021)
• Angelo Colombo, via Pinamonte da Vimercate 10 (2021)
• Tullio Colombo, via Procaccini 23 (2021)
• Angelo Fabello, via Paracelso 5 (2021)
• Cesare Finzi, via Sardegna 21 (2021)
• Iginia Fiorentino, via Plinio 70 (2021)
• Samuel Emilio Fiorentino, via Piolti de' Bianchi 18 (2021)
• Guido Levi e Olga Luigia Ascoli Levi, via Castelmorrone 12 (2021)
• Mario Luzzatto, via Eustachi 36 (2021)
• Aquilino Mandelli, via Inama 24 (2021)
• Luigi Monti, via Sambuco 15 (2021)
• Edoardo Orefice, via De Togni 29 (2021)

• Romano Perelli, via Oxilia 13 (2021)
• Ottaviano Pieraccini, via degli Olivetani 4 (2021)
• Sebastiano Pieri, piazza Filangieri 2 (2021)
• Cesare Pistelli, via Anfiteatro 7 (2021)
• Giulio Ravenna, via Rovani 7 (2021)
• Olga Revere e Ines Revere, viale Monza 90 (2021)
• Mario Riva, via Parini 1/A (2021)
• Michele Tarantino, via degli Etruschi 2 (2021)
• Rebecca Abolaffia Varon, Allegrina Varon e Ida Varon, via delle Forze Armate 175A (2021)
• Luigi Vercesi, via Paolo Sarpi 10 (2021)
• Dante Villa, via Padova 100 (2021)

COMMITTEE FOR "STONES" - MILAN

• President: Liliana Segre

The Committee for the "Stumbling stones" has the support of the Municipality of Milan. The promoting associations are:

• ANED (Associazione Nazionale Ex Deportati nei Lager Nazisti)
• ANPC (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Cristiani)
• ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia)
• ANPPIA (Associazione Nazionale Perseguitati Politici Italiani Antifascisti)
• Associazione Figli della Shoah
• Associazione Rosa Camuna
• CDEC (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea)
• Comunità Ebraica di Milano
• Confederazioni Sindacali CGIL, CISL, UIL
• FIAP (Federazione Italiana Associazioni Partigiane)
• Fondazione Memoria della Deportazione
• Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah di Milano
• Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri

Do you want to know more? Click on the Stumbling Stones website.