Submitted by Jake Schneider on the 2022 winter session program in Italy sponsored by the Department of Philosophy…
The memorial stumbling stones engraved into the ground spread throughout Rome sent chills down my spine the first time I saw them. Having Jewish blood and a Jewish family made seeing these memorial stones a very surreal experience. These brass cobblestones are located where a Jewish family lived before being sent to a concentration camp. Listed on the cobblestones are the names of the victims, which camp they were sent to, and other information. Seeing these memorials spread throughout the city of Rome is a constant reminder of the atrocities of the Holocaust that happened exactly where we have been walking.