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
Lottbeker Weg 13 (Wandsbek, Wohldorf-Ohlstedt)
HIER WOHNTE
LOUIS
GATZENMEYER
JG. 1905
IM WIDERSTAND / SPD
VERHAFTET 24.2.1934
GEFÄNGNIS FUHLSBÜTTEL
FLUCHT 1934
DÄNEMARK
further stumbling stones in Lottbeker Weg 13:
Dorothea Gatzenmeyer
