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
Rothenbaumchaussee 83 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
ARNOLD SINGER
JG. 1886
HAFT 22.1.1940 BERLIN
ZUCHTHAUS LUCKAU
14.12.1942 AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET 28.12.1942
further stumbling stones in Rothenbaumchaussee 83:
Alegra Benezra, Johanna Benezra, Ida Blitz, Hans Scheier, Ilma Hedwig Scheier, Käthe Scheier
