On Stumbling
Over stumbling stones?
No, no one stubs their toe against them.
They're embedded so evenly into the paving.
But the names they carry, the letters and numbers, Are stamped on our conscience;
Are stamped on our conscience;
"born, deported, murdered"
And the places
Łódź, Minsk, Riga, Theresienstadt,
Auschwitz, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka ..."
We look for you
Whose names are written in the archives
and the heavens.
We find you in places of terror and persecution.
We recognise you in your children and grandchildren.
The stones speak of you,
every day.
You are not forgotten.
Inge Grolle
(translation by Dr. Anne Stokes and Ingrid Haas)
Already layed Stumbling Stones
Eppendorfer Baum 43 (Hamburg-Nord, Eppendorf)
HIER WOHNTE
GERD PETER MARTIN
REDLICH
JG. 1922
FLUCHT 1938
HOLLAND
DEPORTIERT 1941
MAUTHAUSEN
ERMORDET 13.9.1941
further stumbling stones in Eppendorfer Baum 43:
Fritz Redlich, Thekla Redlich, Günther Redlich
