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
Innocentiastraße 9 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
GERHARD KAUFFMANN
JG. 1923
FLUCHT 1938 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1944
THERESIENSTADT
AUSCHWITZ
BUCHENWALD
ERMORDET 22.2.1945
further stumbling stones in Innocentiastraße 9:
Lilly Kauffmann, Georg Kauffmann, Rosa Gertrud Schönfeld
