Brass Plaques Memorializing The Death Of A Deported Editorial Photo

Pictured are brass plaques in the Old Jewish Ghetto in Rome, Italy memorializing the death of a deported jew. These cobblestone-sized memorials are referred to as stolpersteine in German, or literally translated “stumbling stones” and are installed outside the last chosen place of residence of victims of the Holocaust. Each plaque is detailed with the victim’s first and last name, date of birth, date and place of deportation, and date of death in a Nazi extermination camp. 2,091 Roman Jews were deported, approximately half of them to Auschwitz, where 839 died. By the end of World War II, only 102 of the deportees were alive.