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
Billrothstraße 56 (Altona, Altona-Altstadt)
HIER WOHNTE
HANS KLIETZ
JG. 1906
EINGEWIESEN 1927
HEILANSTALT NEUSTADT
"VERLEGT" 20.5.1941
BERNBURG
ERMORDET 20.5.1941
"AKTION T4"
further stumbling stones in Billrothstraße 56:
Hermann Klietz, David Schwarzbaum, Clara Schwarzbaum
