 Often the installation of a new "Stolperstein" is announced in local newspapers or on the cities' official websites and is accompanied by a remembrance gathering.Citizens, school children and relatives of the persons who are commemorated on the plates are invited to take part.Often the citizens state that they are motivated by the idea that "they were our neighbors", and that they wish to remember the victim's names, or, symbolically, allow the deported to return to the place where they rightfully belong.