An app to remember people who must never be forgotten.
In connection with the “Stolpersteine” art monument, we would like to digitally support the culture of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism. To do this, we use and compile publicly available data from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. The personal stories and fates are made directly accessible at the places in Germany where they were written. There were already 20,000 stumbling blocks when the app was published in November 2022. There are now over 35,000, which we regularly add.
Stolpersteine Germany is largely barrier-free and can be used by people with significant visual impairment and limited motor skills. The app was created by us on our own initiative without any tax or donation money.
The largest decentralized memorial in the world
“A person is only forgotten when his name is forgotten,” Gunter Demnig quotes the Talmud.
To commemorate the victims of the Nazi era, the artist places small brass memorial plaques on the sidewalk in front of their last chosen living or creative space. Demnig started with a first stumbling block in 1992, and now there are more than 96,000 in over 1,000 German municipalities and 30 countries. The art project is considered the largest decentralized memorial in the world and focuses on the people who were persecuted, murdered, deported or expelled during the Nazi regime.
Cities and places in the app (as of July 2024)
Aachen, Aschaffenburg
Bad Kreuznach, Bamberg, Berlin, Bernau near Berlin, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Bottrop, Bremen
Castrop-Rauxel, Chemnitz, Coburg, Cottbus
Dahme-Spreewald, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Düsseldorf
Eberswalde, Essen, Ettlingen
Falkensee, Frankfurt am Main, Freiberg (Saxony), Freiburg
Geldern
Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hanover, Herzogenrath, Hohen Neuendorf
Iserlohn
Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Koblenz, Konstanz, Krefeld, Cologne
Lahnstein, Leipzig, Lübeck, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Lüneburg
Magdeburg, Mannheim, Meppen, Munich, Münster
Nabburg, Nassau, Nierstein, Nuremberg
Offenburg, Oppenheim, Oranienburg
Paderborn, Penzberg, Potsdam
Recklinghausen, Regensburg, Remscheid, Rendsburg
Saarbrücken, Schacht-Audorf, Schwerin, Siegen, Solingen, Stahnsdorf, Straubing, Stuttgart
Teltow
Uedem
Waltrop, Wiesbaden, Woltersdorf, Worms, Wuppertal, Würselen, Würzburg