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
Woldsenweg 8 (Hamburg-Nord, Eppendorf)
HIER WOHNTE
KURT GEORG MEHRGUT
JG. 1914
INHAFTIERT 1934-1936
GEFÄNGNIS HAMBURG
FLUCHT 1936 PRAG
FLUCHT 1937 HOLLAND
DEPORTIERT 1941
MAUTHAUSEN
ERMORDET 10.09.1941
further stumbling stones in Woldsenweg 8:
Sophie Mehrgut, Wolf Willy Mehrgut
