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
Grüner Deich 165 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hammerbrook)
HIER WOHNTE
WERA GRIMM
JG. 1913
EINGEWIESEN 1922
ALSTERDORFER ANSTALTEN
´VERLEGT‘ 16.8.1943
HEILANSTALT
AM STEINHOF / WIEN
TOT 23.9.1945
further stumbling stones in Grüner Deich 165:
Selig Leiba Goldstein
