Our daily door is accompanied with a picture of a brass plate, one of almost 40,000 now in central Europe. Next to our Prague hotel, this door turned out to be a moving experience we didn't expect. Coincidently, the May 18 edition of The Economist described an art project called Stolpersteine, where brass plates of 10 cm on each side are embedded in the sidewalks. These plates note where victims of the Nazi regime lived, including Jews, gypsies, homosexuals or others and include their names, occupations, date of birth, dates of deportation and or death. Like many art projects, it was initially controversial, however now it has grown much larger than expected and is allowing the families of victims to reconnect with their past in a unique and personal fashion.
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