Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face its Past

Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face its Past
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"Who will remember?"

Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if the memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions of other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now - 76 years after Edith's parents saved their daughter's life by sending her, alone and terrified, to America - she returns to the small German town where her family had lived for hundreds of years. Invited to witness the installation of a memorial to her family - part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II - she experiences how art is helping today's generation face and atone for crimes of the past.

Stumbling on History continues her journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolperteine - Stumbling Stones. Watching former neighbors and their descendants struggle to right their nation's wrongs, Edith realizes, at last, the power of hearing "I'm sorry."

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978-0-9964725-2-4
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54