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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Ernst Rudolf Reiss
© Gemeinde Ommen - Gedenkstätte Westerbork
Ernst Rudolf Reiss * 1927
Abteistraße 24 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
1938 Flucht Holland
1943 KZ Vught und KZ Westerbork
deportiert
1944 Theresienstadt
1944 Auschwitz
ermordet 26.01.1945
see:further stumbling stones in Abteistraße 24:
Elisabeth Lazarus, Marie May Reiss, Ingeborg Reiss