A small crowd gathers for the inauguration of a 'stolperstein', or 'stumbling block', in a street in east Amsterdam, where it honours the life of Ilse Wagner, a Jewish girl who was deported from the Netherlands and killed by the Nazis in the Sobibor extermination camp. Wagner's name is familiar to those who have read Anne Frank's diary, as she was a friend of the young writer. "This is beautiful," says Helen Romain-Levien, a relative of Wagner.
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00:006 million is a figure you can't fathom, but one, if you tell the story of one
00:29person, that might translate, that might transfer to another human being.
00:50In Hamburg there are Stolpersteins for both my grandmothers who were killed and
00:58so it's just growing, you know, the family is growing as far as Stolpersteins go
01:06and this is beautiful, beautiful and it's beautiful they're all together because
01:15they weren't, you know, they were separated and killed.