'' Stolpersteine '' , part of the European '' Stolperstein '' ( literally " stumbling stone " ) memorial project , are scattered around Greifswald . The brass plaques , engraved with the names of Jewish residents who perished in the Holocaust , are embedded in the sidewalk in front of houses where they once lived . Some of the '' Stolpersteine '' in Greifswald mark the nationwide November 9 , 1938 , '' Kristallnacht '' pogroms in which members of the Nazi SA and SS murdered many German Jews , vandalized Jewish property and burned down synagogues – including the Greifswald Synagogue , dating from 1787 . A memorial plaque was installed on the site of the synagogue in 2008 in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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