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The stumbling stones of the Ghetto Nuovo

The stumbling stone of Ida Ancona in the paving of the campo: arrested on 17 August 1944, she was one of the 21 elderly residents
The stumbling stone of Ida Ancona in the paving of the campo: arrested on 17 August 1944, she was one of the 21 elderly residents Photo: Francisco Peralta Torrejón, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Lower your eyes to the paving of the campo (square): the gilded cubes gleaming between the stone slabs are stumbling stones, the Stolpersteine of the German artist Gunter Demnig. He lays them one by one in front of the last house a deported person freely chose, and on each one is a name. In Venice there are now almost two hundred, and the very first was set right here, on 12 January 2014.

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