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
Laufgraben 37 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
MARTHA ROSENBAUM
JG. 1889
DEPORTIERT 1943
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ
further stumbling stones in Laufgraben 37:
Anita Abraham, Helga Jutta Bielefeld, Gerd Cohn, Vera Cohn, Siegrid Dettmann, Marion Krauthamer, Beate Recha Nathan, Johanna Pinkus, Inge Weiss
