Gedenkzeichen in Kemeten

On April 3, 2022, a memorial was inaugurated for all victims of National Socialism. This brought to a close a nearly 20-year discussion process, which reached its peak in a citizens' survey, in which the majority of the population in October 2021 supported the installation of a memorial. The memorial was initiated by the Roma Adult Education Center in cooperation with the Roma associations. The designer of the memorial, Andreas Lehner, wants to highlight through the slant of the stone that the community had become unbalanced due to the murder of roughly a fifth of its population. The approximately 200 holes in the stone refer to the missing people. The memorial stone is meant to remember all victims of the NS regime. These included politically persecuted individuals, sick and disabled persons, Jewish community members, and above all, approximately 200 Romnija and Roma from Kemeten.