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Redefining Memorial Landscapes: The Stolpersteine Project In Berlin, Matthew Russell Cook
Redefining Memorial Landscapes: The Stolpersteine Project In Berlin, Matthew Russell Cook
Masters Theses
Geographers have long been interested in the ways that states and individuals use cultural landscapes to shape the meaning and understanding of the past. In this thesis, I argue that individuals and the state embed different interpretations of the Holocaust past in the German landscape. In particular, I focus on the German artist Gunter Demnig and his Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) Project as a case study of memorial projects created by an individual. The Stolpersteine are small memorial stones for a single Holocaust victim. The stones are installed in front of homes and businesses that were the last known location of …