Stolpersteine in the Trnava Region
Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the victims of Nazi Germany being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide. The first Stolpersteine of the Trnavský kraj, the Trnava Region of present-day Slovakia (formerly Czechoslovakia), were collocated in August 2016. Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Slovak is: "pamätné kamene", memorial stones. Dunajská Streda. On 13 August 2018, three  Stolpersteine were collocated in Dunajská Streda. The inscriptions are both in Slovak and in Hungarian language. Piešťany. 1.065 inhabitants of Piešťany with Jewish roots were murdered in the course of the Shoah. The Stolperstein of Piešťany was posed by Gunter Demnig himself on 6 August 2016. Smolenice. The Stolpersteine in Smolenice were posed by Gunter Demnig himself on 6 August 2016.