Vera Schiff

What do the stones represent to you?

These Stoplersteine are a reminder that we should not take anything for granted. We should believe that it can have, enormous tragedies did happen and could repeat themselves if we choose to forget the past. So I think it just got them great importance for the next generations. Not for people who know, but for people who come after us and who will see it and wonder what it's all about. You read the names and will see that they were murdered And it's not only time perhaps of remorse and acceptance of guilt by the past in Germany, but also a lesson of history to dispense to people who will go by and wonder what it's all about. And to us, the survivors, you have to understand, we have lost many relatives. I've lost all my relatives, but I don't have a grave. I don't have one grave where I could go and say a prayer or remember…

So we, the survivors never had a place, I don't know to, when we felt that we need emotionally, some remember or support to go to so these Stolpersteine will provide it for me many people. There are not many of us left anymore, but I think it is important for posterity, and it's important also to see that the German nation acknowledges that it was wrong what they have done, that they shoulder responsibility because, um, I think this is important too. And I think these Stolpersteine are the living proof of it. If you have inlets in the places where the people have lived so you understand that the people who have committed these atrocities, or that of their descendants are genuinely sorry, and would perhaps like to reverse it if they could . I think we should take all the lessons from this unfortunate era and the Stolpersteine to my understanding is a part of the mosaic, not only the books and not only talking to the survivors, but also visibly on the pavement of Europe, where the blood was so spilled. To see here lived such and such, and he died and all of those camps. So I think it's a very important project, which can achieve a lot in an educational sense, because people will wonder what it is. Not people like me, but the next generations who will pass by and read it and learn, and this is educational…