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
Abendrothsweg 19 (Hamburg-Nord, Hoheluft-Ost)
HIER WOHNTE
CLARA WOLFSOHN
GEB. FREUNDLICH
JG. 1879
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Abendrothsweg 19:
Edith Behrend, Clara Zipora Böhm, Dora Guttentag, Marianne Lehmann, Ruth Weigert, Elise Wiesenthal, Ruth Wolfsohn, Werner Wolfsohn
