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
Kielortallee 24 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)
HIER WOHNTE
FRIME FRIEDA
RAPPAPORT
GEB. SINNREICH
JG. 1880
DEPORTIERT 1941
LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT
ERMORDET 25.4.1942
CHELMNO / KULMHOF
further stumbling stones in Kielortallee 24:
Dina Adloff, Mendel Bari, Peter Glück, Hertha Köpcke, Srul Saul Rappaport
