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
Bornstraße 14 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
EUGEN ALEXANDER
JG. 1899
VERHAFTET 1934
GEFÄNGNIS HAMBURG
1937 ZUCHTHAUS HAMBURG
1939 SACHSENHAUSEN
ERMORDET 25.6.1940
further stumbling stones in Bornstraße 14:
Max Jakob, Dorit Jakob, Elsa Jakob, Marion Jakob, Frieda Rieper
