What are these tiles ? I found many of them on the floor

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  1. Those are Stepping stones. They are there to remember victims of tragedies.

    Edit: as many pointed out these are to remember victims of the Holocaust. I was kinda vague because I saw them also used to remember the victims of the Bologna’ central station terrorist attack

  2. Ninja-Sneaky on

    In this specific case, (edited:) the whole family living there were arrested, deported and died (except the last one) in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen camp

    Here lived * Vivante

    Born:

    Arrested:

    Deported:

    Ravensbruck

    Died: 1945

    Bergen-Belsen

  3. Novel-Sorbet-884 on

    Pietre d’ inciampo. In ricordo degli ebrei deportati tra il ’43 e il ’45 dai nazifascisti. Di solito, se possibile, collocate sulla soglia della loro abitazione o davanti alla sinagoga. Guarda le date. Ci sono quella di nascita, quella di deportazione, quella di morte. Edit in questa famiglia, UNA ragazza è sopravvissuta

  4. Commemorative tiles for Shoah’s victims who lived near the tiles’ location.

    After the “here lived” it is stated:
    – the victim’s name
    – the year of birth
    – the year of arrest
    – the year of deportation
    – either the place and year of death or if they were liberated

  5. Diamantina returned to Trieste in 1945, she was 17, and weighed all of 66 pounds. She was one of the 19 Jews that made it back alive, out of 708 that were deported. Reunited with her father, she got back to life, fell in love, married, had three children and lived to 95. Tina, as everyone called her, passed in August 2023, the last living survivor of the Trieste deportees.

    The ceremony when these stones were laid down was her last public appearance.

  6. As you can notice from date and place of death, they are all victims of the holocaust. They are placed on the entrance of the building from where they were deported, poor souls.

  7. SetEastern1912 on

    If you read with a translator, it wasn’t difficult to understand what they were talking about

  8. VeramenteEccezionale on

    So sad to see only one says “liberata”. Somewhat fitting that her last name was Vivante.

    Speak their names, don’t forget the past.

  9. Pietra d’inciampo (in Hebrew language is the word for Scandal) for victims of Shoah

  10. Late-Improvement8175 on

    Stepping stones. Each of them has the names of people who had been deported during the holocaust.

    “Pietre d’inciampo” could be translated as “tripping stones,” a symbolic gesture to never forget

  11. NoahTheBest00 on

    U in Trieste? They’re called Stepping Stones, to honour the victims of the Holocaust

  12. YoungerthanJesus on

    Will they place them in Gaza for the Palestinian children that have been bombed by Israel?

  13. My great-grand father has one dedicated to him in his hometown. He was deported not because he was jew but for other reasons. He died few months before the end of the war.
    These stepping stones are there in Memory of all the people deported in concentrartion camps and persecuted by nazis during the second world war

  14. i’ll help you. they have names, two dates (the second one going from 1938 to 1945) and in the end the name of a nazi extermination camp.

    considering all of that i suppose they are street signs that guide you to a good gelato place

  15. tecno-killer on

    These tiles serves to remember those that were deported in extermination camps during ww2, and that never came back

  16. dabodidaboda on

    Here lived: Giulia Vivante, Sarina Salonicco Vivante, Ester Salonicco, Enrichetta Vivante, Moise Vivante, Diamantina Vivante

    Born: 1916, 1891, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1928

    Deported: 1944 in Ravensbrück, Moise 17/12/1943

    Died: 30-4-1945, 15-04-1945, 4-?-1945, 15-04-1945, 15-04-1945 in Bergen Belsen.
    Diamantina Vivante was the only survivor.

    They were a jew family. Moise, one of the brothers of the family, was the first one to be deported while he was at a bar where a lot of jew people used to go, in 1943. Diamantina, with the mother Sarina and all of her sisters, was arrested and brought to Trieste prison in 1944. The father didn’t get arrested because they all lied and said he had already been deported.

    They stayed in prison for a long time and, because they were seamstresses, they sewed uniforms for the SS (this was actually a common task for prisoners who sewed). Some of the prison guards knew them and some of them secretly allowed the father to have information on how they were for all the time they stayed in Trieste. Sometimes the father would go to see them and wave at them from a nearby cafè.

    They then were deported after a 17-day trip in trains to eastern europe. They stayed for only a month in the concentration camp and were repeatedly beaten, especially the mother who was older (as a form of psychological torture for the sisters). The camp was freed by English soldiers on 15 aprile 1945, but as you can notice, all of the family, Diamantina (or Tina) excluded, died right after. They were all very sick.

    Tina, the only survivor, was able to return to Trieste only after months that she passed between different war hospitals. After that, she reunited with the father. In an interview, she talks about how the father was obsessed with her and didn’t let her do anything because he was terrified of the idea of losing her too. He died in 1958, right after she got married.

    Diamantina died in august 2023. She continued to tell her story until her very last year of life. She said that she would never forgive for what had happened to her family.

    Stepping stones are made for remembering all the deported in front of the very house they lived in or were deported from. You stepping on them means they worked.

  17. YoungerthanJesus on

    This propaganda is ridiculous. The Holocaust has been milked dry. There are so many other genocides that were 20 times as large.

  18. They are all over Germany, we saw many of these when we were there in 2019. Never Forget.

  19. They are all over Germany, we saw many of these when we were there in 2019. Never Forget.