Rome installs new stolpersteine memorials.

Rome has installed new brass cobblestone memorials to Holocaust victims at 21 locations across the capital, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.

Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig, the memorials are known as stolpersteine in German - translated literally as “stumbling stones” - and are installed outside the last chosen place of residence of victims of the Holocaust.

The brass-capped blocks, which have been added to the hundreds of stolpersteine already present on Rome's streets, are dedicated to Jews and partisans, including women and children, who were either deported to Auschwitz or killed at the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome.

• The stumbling stones of Jewish memorials

The new stolptersteine were installed between Monday and Wednesday as part of the 15th edition of the Memorie d'Inciampo commemorative project overseen by the Arte in Memoria association.

The memorials can be found in Garbatella, S. Lorenzo, the Jewish Ghetto district and the historic centre, as well as in Acilia, halfway between Rome and Ostia.

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