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
Schmuckstraße / Ecke Talstraße (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
LIM PO
JG. 1880
ARBEITSERZIEHUNGSLAGER
WILHELMSBURG
TOT 20.10.1944
further stumbling stones in Schmuckstraße / Ecke Talstraße:
King Tau Ah, Ho Bau Chan, Cheong Fook, Young Fung Fa, Shung John, Wong Liang, Tang Hoo Nam, Chung Sam San, Ting Foo Tun, Chung Ying, Shiu Ying, Shing Yip
