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 91 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
SELMA HARLAM
GEB. KOOPMANN
JG. 1892
DEPORTIERT 1941
LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT
1942 CHELMNO / KULMHOF
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Rothenbaumchaussee 91:
Julius Paul Elkan, Klara Grünewald, Sally Harlam, Walter Harlam, Peter Harlam, Edith Meyer, Caroline Oppenheimer, Margaret Mathilde Oppenheimer
