As already reflected on the website of the German craftsman Gunter Demning http://www.stolpersteine.eu, Soria will pay tribute to its deportees to the national socialist concentration camps on April 6 with the placement of 22 stolpersteine in the capital. The Memory and Dignity Association intends to invite the relatives of the deportees to the event whom it is trying to locate.
With the placement, “it is not only intended to honor the victims of hell in the Nazi concentration camps. It is also intended to underline what is the foundation of our relationship in society, democracy and freedom itself ”, explains the president of Recuerdo y Dignidad, Iván Aparicio. The stolpersteine are small cubic cement blocks in which one of their faces is covered by a thin sheet of brass where an inscription has been engraved reminiscent of a victim of Nazional Socialism. Stolpersteine in German, comes to mean stone or cobblestone that makes you stumble. The stumble is symbolic, emotional, since they are embedded in the pavement in pedestrian areas.
They are used to install in front of the last houses where the victims lived, but in the case of Soria they will be grouped in the main square of the capital. Gunter Demnig will personally place the Stolpersteine in Soria. Today more than 70,000 commemorative blocks have been installed since 1996, when Gunter began his work. The Stolpersteine are the largest monumental complex in the world.
These handmade memory symbols are spread over 24 countries. 23 Europeans and Argentina. And they are an icon in large cities such as Berlin, which has more than 8,000 stolpersteine or Hamburg, which is around 5,000. The Soria City Council sponsors the development and placement of these paving stones that will center the act of tribute.
The deported sorianos object of the tribute they are: Vicente Borjabad Aguacil (Matute de Almazán), Antonio Rodrigálvarez Jodra (Utrilla), Cándido Cabrerizo Alonso (Alcozar), Ciro Redondo Gómez (Tañine), Domingo Riaguas Alonso (Alcozar), Emeterio Vesperinas Iñigo (Morales), Jacinto de Miguel Mostajo (Medinaceli), Julio Tomás Ortiz (San Esteban de Gormaz), Martín Tello Isla (Ólvega), Miguel Martínez Fraile (Arcos de Jalón), Rufino Martínez Aylagas (Cubo de la Sierra), Virginio Martínez Montes (Magaña), Agustín García Ostriz (Magaña) Víctor Martínez Crespo (Rebollar), Mariano Pastor García (Soria), Damián Gañán Rejas (Fuentecambrón), Alberto Martínez Manso (El Burgo de Osma), Emilio Serrano Giménez (Ágreda), Balbino Rincón Peñalba (San Esteban de Gormaz) , Paulino Sáez Aguilera (San Esteban de Gormaz), Santiago Romero Llorente (El Burgo de Osma) and Agustín Gimeno Escallada (Soria).
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