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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Ralf Oettinger 1941
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Ralf Joseph Oettinger * 1933
Haynstraße 2 (Hamburg-Nord, Eppendorf)
RALF JOSEPH
OETTINGER
JG. 1933
GEBOREN IN HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1944
THERESIENSTADT
1944 AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Haynstraße 2:
Herbert Oettinger, Betty Oettinger, Elinor Oettinger