In Lomnice near Brno, today they honored the memory of the Liebesný family

Lomnice (Brno region) - Today in Lomnice in the Brno region, the memory of the Jewish Liebesný family was honored by laying so-called stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones." These stones are meant to commemorate the fates of people who were forcibly taken between 1933 and 1945 to Nazi concentration camps, where most were murdered. This was reported to ČTK by the event's organizers.
    The Liebesný family lived in Lomnice, where there was a very strong Jewish community since the 19th century. Moritz Liebesný was a merchant and served as the chairman of the local Jewish community from 1923 to 1925. "Most of the family ended up in the gas chambers of the extermination camp in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Only one family member survived the war," said Barbora Antonová from the Beautification Society for Lomnice and its surroundings to ČTK.
    The stumbling stones - stolpersteine are meant to commemorate not only Jews but also Roma, Czech citizens, resistance fighters, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other victims of the Nazis. The project was founded by German artist Günter Demnig, who laid his first stumbling stones illegally in 1996 in Cologne and Berlin, later with the support of authorities in many places in Germany. To date, approximately 25,000 stones have been installed in various countries.
    Stolpersteine - literally translated, thus "stones you stumble over" - are granite cubes measuring 10x10 centimeters, into which a brass plaque with information about the abducted people is embedded. The stones are placed in the sidewalk in front of the house where the individuals are known to have lived and from where they were taken. Usually, stones are installed for entire families so that their members ultimately have, at least symbolically, a shared grave.
    Today in Lomnice, the first stumbling stone was installed. "However, we want to continue this and thus commemorate other Jewish families," Antonová stated. The memorial event was attended by several dozen people today on-site, including relatives of the Liebesný family.