International Auschwitz Committee

Rule Changes

As of September 2026: Vice president Christoph Heubner called the ban a 'transparent and shabby attempt' to push Nazi victims out of the city

Heidenau's town council voted 13-6 this week to reject new Stolpersteine, the brass plaques set into German sidewalks to name victims of Nazi persecution. The motion, backed by the far-right AfD and the center-right CDU, directs future remembrance to the Nordfriedhof cemetery instead of the town's streets.

Updated Sep 27