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The Stolpersteine in Venice lists the Stolpersteine in the Italian city Venice. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Italian is: pietre d'inciampo. The first Stolperstein collocated in Veneto was dedicated to Bartolomeo Melone, it was posed in Campo SS. Apostoli of Venice.

Jewish community
Although the Jews of Venice remained separated from the rest of the population and in cramped conditions until the end of the Republic of Venice in 1797, they enjoyed the protection of the republic. The attacks of Christians were punished, and Jewish residents in Venice were protected from the Inquisition and their ever-present reprisals. In the cities of the Terra ferma, as the territories of Venice on the adjoining Italian mainland were called, officials were also punished if they tolerated or did not punish attacks against Jewish residents. Although hard-taxed, Jews from the 16th century to the beginning of the nineteenth century had high legal security, unique in Europe. The Serenissima and its population have not participated in pogroms against their Jewish population. Even during the period of Italian fascism, there were no life-threatening reprisals.

This changed dramatically during the short reign of Nazi Germany in Northern Italy. All Jews, no matter how old they were, if 16 months or 88 years, were haunted, arrested and deported to the extermination camps, mainly to Auschwitz. There they were murdered either in the gas chambers immediately after arrival or via exhaustion after forced labour and starvation a few months later.

Military personnel
The lists are sortable; the basic order follows the alphabet according to the last name of the victim.

Dates and ceremonies

 * 12 January 2014: Cannaregio 1156 (Bruna Grassini and Ugo Beniamino Levi), 1223 (Clerle, Clerle, Grassini), 2115, 2337, 274, 3399/a, 4470, Campo di Ghetto Nuovo
 * 14 January 2015: Cannaregio 1146, 1232, 1543, 2346/b; San Servolo
 * 19 January 2016: Cannaregio 1223 (Aboaf), 2006, 2337 and 5401/a; Castello 6039 (family Vivante); San Marco 515
 * 19 January 2017: Mirano
 * 20 January 2017: Cannaregio 386, 1150, 1156 (six members of Levi family), 1215, 2198 and 5999; Castello 6039 (Gianna Cavalieri), San Marco 4741, San Polo 1154