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
Grasweg 72 / Schule (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)
HIER LERNTE
KARL-HEINZ
STRELOW
JG. 1915
VERHAFTET OKT.1942
‚VORBEREITUNG ZUM
HOCHVERRAT’
HINGERICHTET 13.5.1943
BERLIN PLÖTZENSEE
further stumbling stones in Grasweg 72 / Schule:
Rolf Arno Baruch, Rolf William Levisohn
