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
Rothenbaumchaussee 217 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
EMMA JOSEPHS
JG. 1876
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
1944 AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Rothenbaumchaussee 217:
Dr. Albert Dreifuss, Bernhard Wolf Josephs, Caroline Josephs, Siegfried Josephs, Elise Josephs, Claus Josephs, Ida Koopmann, Anna Polak, Henny Silberberg, Mary Sternberg, Albertine Vyth, Julius Wohl
