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)
Stolperstein-Verlegung vor dem Kunstverein
Am 16.10.2020, 11 Uhr setzt Gunter Demnig vor dem Kunstverein in Hamburg einen Stein für das ermordete Kunstvereinsmitglied Dr. Julius Adam und eine Stolperschwelle zum Gedenken an alle Mitglieder des Kunstverein Hamburg, die entrechtet, gedemütigt, verfolgt oder ermordet wurden.
