Stolpersteine 'Tripping Stone' Project Commemorates Victims Of Fascism In Rome

ROME, ITALY - JANUARY 9: People take part in the laying of a "Stumbling Stone" (Pietre d'inciampo in Italian) in front of the house of Aldo Ercoli, in the Centocelle district, member of the Action Party, detained in Regina Coeli and shot in the Fosse Ardeatine by the Nazi-fascists in 1944 on January 9, 2024 in Rome, Italy. The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate individuals at exactly the last place of residency, sometimes which was freely chosen by the person before he or she fell victim to Nazi terror, was deported to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. Stolpersteine have been laid making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial. (Photo by Simona Granati - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)