00:00Four Stumbling Stones were laid here on the outskirts of Berlin in Johannestal on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
00:10They commemorate the Jewish Levi family who fled to what is now Israel during the Nazi regime.
00:17Dozens of people have come, including seven descendants.
00:22They have traveled from Israel and Italy, including granddaughter Dana Yeshurun.
00:27It's very moving. We've been working on it for over two years now.
00:33They were able to discover a few facts that we didn't know about.
00:38We never knew that our great-grandfather served in the German army in the First World War.
00:45And so it was an interesting experience.
00:50More than 116,000 so-called Stolpersteine worldwide, most of them in Germany, commemorate the horrors of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
01:00A few kilometers away in Berlin-Kreuzberg, people are also taking a stand against violence against Jews.
01:07With candles, they provide light and a feeling of warmth.
01:10As they do every week, residents hold a vigil in front of the Frankaloufer Synagogue.
01:15What we expect is that people from this community at least have the feeling that they are not totally alone as Jewish people.
01:23And no one cares about themselves.
01:25That they are being persecuted on the street.
01:27That they are being arrested.
01:28That they are being arrested.
01:29That they are being arrested.
01:30That they are being arrested.
01:31That they are being arrested with guns in parks.
01:32That will not change the world.
01:34But a small community of people feels supported by us.
01:40Police fans provide additional security, as is the case in front of many Synagogues in Germany.
01:47Etwa 6 Millionen Menschen wurden während des Holocaust ermordet.
01:51Auch heute noch werden Juden in Deutschland diskriminiert.
01:54In den vergangenen Jahren ist die Zahl der antisemitischen Straftaten deutlich angestiegen.
01:59Laura Fleischmann aus Berlin, für Euronews.
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