How many Stolpersteine are there, and in which countries?

There are more than 100,000 Stolpersteine. They lie in about 30 European countries. The 100,000th stone was laid on 26 May 2023 in Nuremberg. The project is often called the largest decentralised memorial in the world, because the stones are spread across many places.

Countries with stones

Countries with stones include Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The Netherlands and Belgium

In the Netherlands and Belgium together there are more than 15,600 Stolpersteine, according to figures from Stichting 18 September, a foundation in Eindhoven. The first Stolpersteine in the Netherlands were laid in Borne in 2007. Belgium followed in 2009. Behind these numbers lies the persecution of Jews. Of the roughly 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands in 1940, about 102,000 were murdered. Most were deported through the transit camp Westerbork in Drenthe to Auschwitz and Sobibor, both places of mass murder. In Belgium, Jews and Roma were deported from the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, most of them to Auschwitz. More than 25,000 people were deported from there.

How the figures are kept

Since 2019 Stichting 18 September has kept a database of Stolpersteine in the Netherlands and Belgium, together with local organisations. It now also includes stones in other countries. The number grows as new stones are laid.

To see how many stones lie in your own street or city, open the map of Stolpersteine.app.