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
Carl-Petersen-Straße 114 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
HIER WOHNTE
OSCHER SIEGMUND
KLIGLER
JG. 1904
´SCHUTZHAFT` 1939
KZ SACHSENHAUSEN
1942 KZ RAVENSBRÜCK
BERNBURG / SAALE
ERMORDET 25.3.1942
further stumbling stones in Carl-Petersen-Straße 114:
Cäcilie Kligler, Joseph Kligler, Ruth Kligler
