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
Erichstraße 8 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
HIER WOHNTE
CLARA MOHR
JG. 1912
EINGEWIESEN 1932
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
1934/35 VERSORGUNGSHEIME
OBERALTENALLEE/FARMSEN
‚VERLEGT‘ 9.5.1944
MESERITZ-OBRAWALDE
ERMORDET 26.7.1944
