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
Barenkrug 16 (Wandsbek, Tonndorf)
SCHULE BENANNT NACH
GYULA TREBITSCH
GEB. 1914 BUDAPEST
ZWANGSARBEIT 1942
RUSSLAND / 1944 SERBIEN
KZ SACHSENHAUSEN / BARTH
1945 KZ WÖBBELIN
BEFREIT
further stumbling stones in Barenkrug 16:
Otto Trebitsch, Zoltan Trebitsch
