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
Kielortallee 23 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)
HIER WOHNTE
MARTHA HÄFNER
GEB. WRIEDT
VERW. HELMHOLD
JG. 1874
EINGEWIESEN 1929
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
´VERLEGT` 15.8.1943
AM STEINHOF / WIEN
ERMORDET 21.4.1945
further stumbling stones in Kielortallee 23:
Bertha Cohn, Jenny Cohn, Minna Fleischhauer, Marianne Lange, Olga Schey
