Gunter Demnig, who began initiative, says he hopes the Stolpersteine will help create 'a different image of Germany,' as US ambassador lays memorial plaque for her relatives

Make Their Memory Shine organization brings together people of all backgrounds to commemorate Holocaust, identify common values and respect differences

Cemetery vandalism found in Haren being treated as anti-Semitic hate crime by police; Stolperstein 'stumbling stone' plaques for Holocaust victims defaced in Chemnitz, Eilenburg

Laura Kam commissioned Dortmund memorial after spending years researching history of her maternal great-grandparents, who died in the Holocaust

Szczecin city architect tells Jewish woman who asked to commemorate her father with 'Stolpersteine' that passersby might think the perpetrators of the Nazi crimes were Poles

There are more than 70,000 small brass plates on the streets of Europe placed outside the last known homes of people killed in the Holocaust