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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Wilhelm Christen * 1907
Neustädter Straße 31 Pik AS (Hamburg-Mitte, Neustadt)
WILHELM CHRISTEN
JG. 1907
VERHAFTET 1936
MAUTHAUSEN
SACHSENHAUSEN
NEUENGAMME
TOT AN HAFTFOLGEN 3.6.1945
further stumbling stones in Neustädter Straße 31 Pik AS:
Günther Brackemeier, Helmut Büdgen, Walter Cardis, Karl Drischler, Walter Hoffmann, Kurt Jensen, Johann Kurz, Johannes Lehnau, Walter Makowski, Fritz Marquardt, Karl-Heinz Rothbarth, August Schlösser, Franz Schwarzl, Elmar Wagner, Albert Wölck