The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte — three people enslaved in the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s — had previously been unknown to all but their descendants. But now, ...

In European cities, it is not uncommon to see groups kneeling on sidewalks cleaning Stolpersteine. Using brass cleaner, rags, sponges, and water, they restore the dirty and dull “stumbling stones” ...

Two brothers born into slavery in the 1820s have been honored with new “stumbling stone” historical markers on Columbia Pike. The bronze emblems, embedded into the sidewalk at the intersection of the ...

'Stumbling Stones: How 100,000 plaques shape Holocaust memory The Stumbling Stones commemorate all victims of National Socialism – those murdered in camps, those who survived, and those who escaped by ...

Artist Gunter Demnig works quickly and quietly. He kneels down to remove a slab of Berlin pavement and carefully replaces it with three small brass plaques, engraved with the names of the Boschwitz ...