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
Isestraße 37 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
WALTER
LABOWSKY
JG. 1887
FLUCHT 1937 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1943
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 8.3.1944
further stumbling stones in Isestraße 37:
Rosa Dallmann, Betty Francken, Margarethe Labowsky, Alice Labowsky, Artur Toczek, Noemi Nora Toczek, Reha Toczek, Nelly Toczek
