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
Rappstraße 13 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
SIEGFRIED FRANKENTHAL
JG. 1897
DEPORTIERT 1945
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET
3.5.1945
further stumbling stones in Rappstraße 13:
Ruth Bieber, Hans-Adolf Frankenthal, Hans Hoffmann, Frieda Hoffmann, Walter Hoffmann, Heimann Horwitz, Minna Lazarus, Hanna Offenburg, Nathan Hirsch Offenburg, Irmgard Posner, Karl Posner
