Digital stumbling blocks against forgetting

More than 15,000 brass stones in public paths in North Rhine-Westphalia commemorate victims of the Third Reich. WDR has now made the stories of the people behind the stones by artist Gunter Demnig digitally accessible. On the one hand, there is the option of calling up the portal in the browser via stolpersteine.wdr.de. Alternatively, there is a free app with texts, photos, audio files and illustrations for both Android and Apple iOS. The biographies of victims of Nazi terror can be searched in these ways.
"Stolpersteine NRW" encourages people to engage with the victims of National Socialism. Stumbling stones can be found specifically on the basis of names or addresses. Filters make it possible to search through the more than 15,000 biographies. Biographical texts, illustrations, radio plays and historical photos make the fates behind the Stolpersteine audible, visible and tangible. The digital offering also includes more than 200 drawn short stories that explore people's biographies. These were produced in collaboration with students and graduates of the Comic and Illustration Class (Kassel University of Art and Design).

The illustrators:
Amelie Stute, Anne Zimmermann, Burcu Türker, Daniela Heller, Florian Biermeier , Greta von Richthofen, Hannae Kim, Ilknur Kocer, Inga-Lisa Burmester, Jessica Ronja Pelz, Jia You, Jolanda Obleser, Karen Hertfelder, Karolina Chyzewska, Laura Dörner, Markus Färber, Marlene Ochs, Marthe Viehmann, Melanie Lüdtke, Melanie Mendetzki, Robin Rösing, Samirah Frank,Verena Kern

Links:
Stolpersteine NRW in the Playstore (Android)
Stolpersteine NRW in the App-Store (Apple)
Stumbling Stones NRW