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
Helene-Lange-Straße 1 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
GERD WALTER SIEGEL
JG. 1925
FLUCHT 1938 BELGIEN
INTERNIERT MECHELEN
DEPORTIERT 1944 AUSCHWITZ
1945 KZ MAUTHAUSEN
KZ-AUSSENLAGER GUSEN
ERMORDET 19.3.1945
further stumbling stones in Helene-Lange-Straße 1:
Edith Frensdorff, Ilse Frensdorff, Max Frensdorff
