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Heidenau Council Bans Stolpersteine Plaques on Sidewalks

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  • Heidenau city council voted to ban future Stolpersteine plaques on public streets.
  • The secret ballot recorded 13 votes for, six against, and one abstention.
  • CDU, AfD and the Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy jointly submitted the motion.
  • The council ordered new memorials to be placed at Heidenau’s Northern Cemetery instead of sidewalks.
  • International Auschwitz Committee and March of the Living condemned the ban as erasing Holocaust memory.