Chung Ying – that is a name that many Germans would probably not expect on a stumbling block. In Hamburg, victims of National Socialism of Chinese descent are now being remembered.
The artist Gunter Demnig has on Monday the
6000th Stolperstein laid in Hamburg. It is said to commemorate Chung Ying and twelve other Chinese victims in the former Chinese quarter in the St. Pauli district.
“6000 stumbling blocks in the city, that is, 6000 times confrontation with a past for which we have to take responsibility,” said Hamburg’s Senator for Culture Carsten Brosda (SPD). Little is known about the history of the former Chinese quarter. “This story is a reminder to set the rules and framework conditions together that make it possible for us to live peacefully and freely with one another in diversity.”
Stolpersteine in Hamburg have been remembering people who were victims of National Socialism since 2002. The stones, which have small brass plates with the names of the victims on the top, are laid in the street or sidewalk in front of their former homes.
“Without the sponsors who gave the city of Hamburg the largest decentralized art monument, this success would not have been possible,” said Peter Hess, the initiator of the Stolpersteine in the Hanseatic city. Anyone who wants to can sponsor a memorial stone for 120 euros. The project, which was started in 1996, has been the largest decentralized memorial in the world for years with more than 75,000 stones in 1265 German municipalities and in 24 European countries.
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