德国东部某城镇的议员们投票决定停止在 Holocaust 受害者故居外安装纪念牌，称将改为在墓地建立纪念设施。
Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.
为纪念被纳粹政权杀害的人们，欧洲各地已在受害者（多为犹太人）故居外的 sidewalks 上安装了数千块小型纪念牌。
To honor people murdered by the Nazi regime, Europeans across the continent have installed thousands of little memorial plaques in the sidewalks outside the homes of the victims, most of them Jews.
自三十多年前安装首批纪念牌以来，31 个国家已揭幕了超过 116,000 块被称为“绊脚石”的黄铜地砖。在德国，这些石头长期以来是国家承认并赎罪其纳粹历史努力的一部分。
Since the first plaques were installed more than three decades ago, more than 116,000 such “stumbling stones,” as the brass tiles are known, have been unveiled across 31 countries. In Germany, the stones have long been part of a national effort to acknowledge and atone for the country’s Nazi history.
如今，德国东部海德瑙（Heidenau，人口 16,500 人）的极右翼和保守派议员联盟打破了这一努力，投票决定停止该项目。
Now, a coalition of far-right and conservative city councilors in eastern Germany have broken with that effort by voting to stop the project — at least in their town of Heidenau, population 16,500.
上周，海德瑙市议会以 13 票对 6 票的无记名投票结果，禁止安装七块新的“绊脚石”（德语为 Stolpersteine）。该动议由极右翼德国选择党（AfD）、中右翼基督教民主联盟（CDU，即总理弗里德里希·默茨所在的政党）以及当地独立人士小联盟的议员共同提出。
Last week, the City Council of Heidenau voted 13-6 in a secret ballot to ban the installation of seven new stumbling stones, or “Stolpersteine” in German. The motion was proposed jointly by councilors from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD; the center-right Christian Democratic Union, or C.D.U., the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz; and a small alliance of local independents.
议员们表示，禁止安装这些纪念牌是因为人们可能会踩踏它们，从而可能亵渎对受害者的记忆。他们提议改为在当地墓地建立一座通用纪念碑。
The councilors said they were barring the plaques’ installation because people might step on them, potentially disrespecting the victims’ memory. They proposed installing a general memorial instead at the local cemetery.
这一决定在德国各地引发了尖锐批评，包括 CDU 全国领导层的批评，该党长期以来拒绝与 AfD 合作。纪念大屠杀是现代德国国家的基本原则之一，对许多德国人来说，地砖位于日常生活喧嚣之中的位置对其影响力至关重要——恰恰因为人们很容易踩踏到它们。
Their decision has drawn sharp criticism across Germany, including from the C.D.U.’s national leadership, which has long rejected working with the AfD. Memorializing the Holocaust is one of the fundamental tenets of the modern German state and to many Germans, the tiles’ location amid the bustle of everyday life is considered crucial to their impact — precisely because it is so easy to step on them.