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Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get ‘stumbling stone’ plaques

Close-up of a small square block set in a pavement bearing n inscription of a name and birth and death dates
A commemorative ‘stolpersteine’, or stumbling stone, in Amsterdam. Photograph: Judith Jockel/the Guardian

They call them stumbling stones – little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where Holocaust victims once lived.

As the Netherlands marks 80 years of liberation, a row has sprung up about placing Stolpersteine for 45 Dutch political prisoners – Jewish activists, communists, critical Christians – who were “experimentally” gassed by the Nazis at the Bernburg psychiatric clinic in Germany in 1942.

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