These stones mark the last place that Nazi victims lived. They can be found all over Madrid (and Europe). I found this one 500 metres from my flat, which was surprising as I didn’t think my neighbourhood was that old. A tragic reminder that the horrors of the Holocaust didn’t happen that long ago.
In English it reads:
Here lived José Fontanet Moreno
Born 1903
Exiled 1939
France, Stalag-Fallingbostel
Deported 1940
Mauthausen-Gusen
Murdered 10.12.1941
It feels more important than ever to remember what happened in Nazi Germany decades ago given the current state of the world 