is the German name for small, cobblestone-sized memorials placed around Europe by the German artist Gunter Demnig. They commemorate the victims of Nazi Germany who were murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide. The first in Milan, the capital of the Italian region of Lombardia, were established in January 2017.
Generally, the blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self-chosen residence. The name of the in Italian is .
Milan Stone Inscription Location Life and death HERE LIVEDANGELO AGLIERILOMBROSOBORN 1914ARRESTED 25.5.1944DEPORTEDFLOSSENBÜRGMURDERED 24.12.1944 Viale Monza, 23 Angelo Aglieri HERE WORKEDGIANLUIGI BANFIBORN 1910ARRESTED 21.3.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 10.4.1945GUSEN Via dei Chiostri 2 , born on 2 April 1910 in Milan, was an architect. Together with colleagues Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers, he founded the BBPR studio, which was also involved in urban planning, in interior design and in publishing the journal Quadrante. He promoted rationalist architecture in Italy and became an anti-fascist, he adhered to the clandestine Partito d'Azione and caught during Nazi occupation of northern Italy. His colleague Ernesto Nathan Rogers, of Jewish descent, had to flee to Switzerland. Banfi and his colleague Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso were arrested on 21 March 1944 and deported first to Fossoli di Carpi, then to Bolzano and Mauthausen. He died in the Gusen subcamp on the eve of liberation, on 10 April 1945.Biography Gianluigi Banfi
Belgiojoso did survive. HERE LIVEDADELE BASEVILOMBROSOBORN 1868ARRESTED 1.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 5.2.1944 Via Vespri Siciliani 71 was born on 7 August 1866 in Brescia. She was the daughter of Alessandro Basevi and Silvia Finzi. She married Gerolamo Lombroso. The couple had a daughter, Renata. After the German occupation of Northern Italy in September 1943, Italian citizens who betrayed Jews to the SS were promised to get their apartment. The elderly lady was arrested by Nazi troops on 1 December 1943. She was deported with the convoy #6 to Auschwitz concentration camp on 30 January 1944 and arrived there on 6 February 1944. She was murdered on the day of her arrival in a gas chamber.
Her daughter was able to survive because she was warned and hid by the porter after returning from work.Chi era costui?: Adele Basevi Lombroso, retrieved 2 February 2017.CDEC: Basevi, Adele, retrieved 2 February 2017.The date of death stated on the Stolperstein may be incorrect. According to Danuta Czech: Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939–1945, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1989, , p. 720, the RSHA transport with 700 Jews from Milan and Verona arrived on 6 February 1944 in Auschwitz. HERE LIVEDGIUSEPPE BERNABORN 1903ARRESTED 11.3.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENDIED 10.5.1945 Via privata Hermada, 4 Giuseppe Berna HERE LIVEDMARGHERITALUZZATTO BÖHMBORN 1878ARRESTED 13.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 26.2.1944 Via De Amicis, 45 Margherita Luzzatto BöhmCentro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: HERE LIVEDMICHELANGELOBÖHMBORN 1867ARRESTED 13.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 6.2.1944 Via De Amicis, 45 Michelangelo BöhmCentro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: HERE LIVEDEMMA BOVIBORN 1888ARRESTED 15.3.1944DEPORTEDRAVENSBRÜCKMURDERED 25.3.1945FÜRSTENBERG Via Bezzecca, 1 Emma Bovi HERE LIVEDENZO CAPITANOBORN 1927ARRESTED 22.12.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENDIED 9.5.1945 Via Stradella, 13 Enzo CapitanoA.N.P.I.: Pietre d'Inciampo in Zona 3, 19 January 2018.Anna Cirillo: Così morì lo studente Enzo, La Repubblica, 30 January 2005. HERE LIVEDDANTE COENBORN 1910ARRESTED 26.7.1944DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 4.4.1945BUCHENWALD Via Plinio 20 was born on 24 August 1910 in Ancona. He was the son of Arrigo Coen and Ilde Portaleone. He had ten brothers (Aldo, Attilio, Brenno, Bruno, Enzo, Franco, Manfred, Nello, Remo and Umberto) and four sisters (Dina, Floretta, Lina and Romilda).CDEC: Portaleone, Ilde, retrieved on 2 February 2017. He married Angelina Giustacchini. The couple had a daughter, Ornella. He was arrested by Nazi authorities on 26 July 1944, and deported with convoy # 14 on 2 August 1944 to Auschwitz and arrived there on 6 August 1944. His prison number was 190841, tattooed on his skin. He was murdered, presumably after a death march, in Buchenwald concentration camp on 4 April 1945.Chi era costui?: Scheda Dante Coen, retrieved on 2 February 2017.
At least two of his siblings, Romilde and Umberto, were also victims of the Shoah.CDEC: Coen, Dante, retrieved on 2 February 2017. HERE LIVEDETTA DE BENEDETTIREINACHBORN 1904ARRESTED NOV. 1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED Via De Togni, 10 Maria Antonietta Reinach De BenedettiCarlo Galante: [Perseguitati perchè ebrei. La triste storia dei Reinach.], retrieved on 7 June 2018.CLAIMS RESOLUTION TRIBUNAL: In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation Case No. CV96-4849, retrieved on 7 June 2018. HERE LIVEDPIERO DE BENEDETTIBORN 1929ARRESTED NOV. 1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED Via De Togni, 10 Piero De Benedetti HERE LIVEDUGO DE BENEDETTIBORN 1893ARRESTED NOV. 1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED Via De Togni, 10 Ugo De Benedetti HERE LIVEDANTONIO DE GIORGIBORN 1904DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 20.3.1945GUSEN Via Borgonuovo, 5 Antonio De GiorgiChi era costui?: Scheda Antonio De Giorgi, retrieved on 7 June 2018.A.N.P.I.: PIETRE D'INCIAMPO A MILANO, retrieved on 7 June 2018. HERE LIVEDMELCHIORREDE GIULIBORN 1906ARRESTED 7.8.1944DEPORTEDDACHAUMURDERED 24.2.1945ÜBERLINGEN Via Milazzo 4 was born on 7 February 1906 in Motta Visconti in the province of Milan. His parents were Costante De Giuli and Maria Caserio. At a young age he was a follower of the Fascists, but turned away from them in the 1930s. He became an overt opponent of Mussolini and his regime. He joined the resistance movement Giustizia e Libertà and was interned from 1934 to 1938 as a political prisoner on the island of Ponza. After the armistice of Cassibile and the subsequent invasion of the Germans in northern Italy, he joined the Lombard Azione Patriottica, small clandestine resistance groups founded by the Communist Party of Italy. He was arrested in Milan on 7 August 1944 by the Nazis and deported first to Bolzano, later to Dachau concentration camp. De Giuli came to a sub-camp established at the outskirts of Überlingen, in Aufkirch, where 700 prisoners were deployed in the construction of an extensive underground facility, the Goldbach Stollen for the manufacture of military armaments. There he was murdered on 24 February 1945.Chi era costui?: Scheda Melchiorre De Giuli, retrieved on 2 February 2017. HERE LIVEDCESARE FANOBORN 1868ARRESTED 18.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 6.2.1944 Via Corridoni, 1 Cesare Fano was born on 13 June 1868 in Colorno (PR), son of Abramo Fano and Corinna Rimini. In 1904 he married Silvia Usigli born on September 2, 1879, in Rovigo, daughter of Giacomo and Carolina Usigli. They had a son, Paolo, and they live in Milan, in Via Corridoni #1. Cesare worked in a bank and Silvia was a housewife. The family had a peaceful life. They did not realize the consequences of the racial laws of 1938 and remained at home even after September 8, 1943, day of the German occupation. Their advanced age would have saved them. When they tried to escape to Switzerland at the end of December 1943, it was too late. They were captured on 18 December 1943 in Tirano, they were detained first in the Sondrio prison and then in Milan, in San Vittore. They were deported on transport 6 which departed from platform 21 in Milan on 30 January 1944 and arrived in Auschwitz on 6 February 1944. They did not go through the selection on arrival and were immediately sent to the gas chambers.Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: , with a portrait HERE LIVEDSILVIA USIGLI FANOBORN 1879ARRESTED 18.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 6.2.1944 Via Corridoni, 1 Silvia Usigli FanoCentro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: HERE LIVEDWILLIAM FINZIBORN 1900ARRESTED 10.5.1944DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 7.2.1945MAUTHAUSEN Via Conca del Naviglio, 7 William Finzi HERE LIVEDANGELO FIOCCHIBORN 1911ARRESTED 2.3.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 7.4.1945EBENSEE Viale Lombardia, 65 Angelo FiocchiMilano Today: Sfregiata la pietra d'inciampo di Angelo Fiocchi in viale Lombardia a Milano, 23 January 2018.Corriere della Sera (Milano): Sfregiata la pietra d'inciampo di Angelo Fiocchi, 23 January 2018. HERE LIVEDRAFFAELE GILARDINOBORN 1917ARRESTED 2.8.1944DEPORTEDDACHAUBUCHENWALDMURDERED 1.2.1945 Viale Piceno, 33 Raffaele GilardinoPietre d'inciampo Milano: 12. Raffaele GILARDINO, retrieved on 1 June 2018. HERE LIVEDGIUSEPPE LENZIBORN 1880ARRESTED 15.3.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 21.11.1944GUSEN Via Spontini 8 was born on 23 December 1880 in Palaia in the province of Pisa. He was married to Sestilia Antonelli.Università degli Studi di Milano: Giorno della memoria 2017 - La memoria a Milano: le Pietre d'Inciampo, retrieved on 2 February 2017. Lenzi was an anti-fascist. After the armistice of Cassibile and the subsequent take-over of power by the Nazi regime in northern Italy, he joined the Partito d'Azione (Pd'A), a political party founded in 1942 in the underground to fight against fascism. He became a close associate of Ferruccio Parri, a leading representative of the Pd'A, a partisan chief and later Prime Minister of Italy. Following a denunciation, he was arrested by Nazi forces on 15 March or 15 August 1944. He was first deported to Fossoli transit camp, thereafter to the Mauthausen concentration camp and murdered on 21 November 1944 in one of its sub-camps, in Gusen.Chi era costui?: Scheda Giuseppe Lenzi, retrieved on 2 February 2017.Concerning the month of the arrest, there are conflicting indications. On the Stolperstein and on the website Chi era costui? the 15th of August 1944 is mentioned, on the website of the Associazione Figli della Shoah, retrieved on 2 February 2017, and on other internet sources it's the 15th of March.
On 20 May 1946, Lenzi was officially recognized as partisan and voluntary freedom fighter for Lombardy in the years 1943 and 1944. HERE LIVEDROMEO LOCATELLIBORN 1897ARRESTED 20.11.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 9.4.1945GUSEN Viale Emilio Caldara, 11 Romeo LocatelliChi era costui?: Scheda Romeo Locatelli (Omero), retrieved on 2 June 2018.le Pietre d'Inciampo: Romeo Locatelli: i documenti, with two photographs, retrieved on 2 June 2018. HERE LIVEDGIUSEPPE MALAGODIBORN 1894ARRESTED 10.12.1943DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 29.3.1945GUSEN Via Marcona, 34 Giuseppe Malagodi HERE LIVEDALESSANDRO MONETABORN 1883ARRESTED 4.11.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 20.1.1945GUSEN Piazzale Cadorna, 15 Alessandro Moneta HERE LIVEDGIUSEPPE PAGANOBORN 1896ARRESTED 5.9.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 22.4.1945MELK Via Sarfatti, 25 (in front of Bocconi University) Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig, architectR.it: Memoria, 26 nuove pietre di inciampo per le vittime della Shoah. Sala: "Milano libera e antifascista", 15 January 2018. HERE LIVEDLIVIA SINIGALLIAPIPERNOBORN 1906ARRESTED 15.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 30.12.1944DACHAU Via Bizzoni, 7 Livia Sinigallia Piperno HERE LIVEDODORICO PIPERNOBORN 1901ARRESTED 15.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED Via Bizzoni, 7 Odorico Piperno HERE LIVEDRAMBALDO PIPERNOBORN 1930ARRESTED 15.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED Via Bizzoni, 7 Rambaldo Piperno HERE LIVEDRENZO PIPERNOBORN 1932ARRESTED 15.12.1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 6.2.1944 Via Bizzoni, 7 Renzo Piperno HERE LIVEDOTTO POPPERBORN 1915ARRESTED 24.1.1944DEPORTEDMAUTHAUSENMURDERED 25.10.1944LINZ Via Mengoni, 2 Otto Michael Popper HERE LIVEDERNESTO REINACHBORN 1855ARRESTED NOV. 1943DEPORTEDAUSCHWITZMURDERED 7.12.1943DURING TRANSPORT Via De Togni, 10