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
Seilerstraße 22 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
HIER WOHNTE
ARANKA FUCHS
VERH. WILDE
JG. 1909
DEPORTIERT 1943
THERESIENSTADT
AUSCHWITZ 1944
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Seilerstraße 22:
Egele Damitt, Erna Fuchs, Irma Fuchs, Marianne Fuchs, Philipp Fuchs, Selma Fuchs, Minna Grünewald
