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)
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Johann Kurz * 1911
Neustädter Straße 31 Pik AS (Hamburg-Mitte, Neustadt)
JOHANN KURZ
JG. 1911
MEHRMALS VERHAFTET
ZULETZT 1939
SACHSENHAUSEN
DACHAU
ERMORDET 5.12.1942
NATZWEILER
further stumbling stones in Neustädter Straße 31 Pik AS:
Günther Brackemeier, Helmut Büdgen, Walter Cardis, Wilhelm Christen, Karl Drischler, Walter Hoffmann, Kurt Jensen, Johannes Lehnau, Walter Makowski, Fritz Marquardt, Karl-Heinz Rothbarth, August Schlösser, Franz Schwarzl, Elmar Wagner, Albert Wölck