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
Vereinsstraße 7 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)
HIER WOHNTE
KURT SPITZKOPF
JG. 1914
DEPORTIERT 1941
NINSK
NEUENGAMME
BERGEN-BELSEN
ERMORDET APRIL 1945
further stumbling stones in Vereinsstraße 7:
Henry Polles, Rolf Wilhelm Simon, Auguste Spitzkopf, Alfred Spitzkopf, Ruth Spitzkopf, Charlotte Spitzkopf, Heinz Ruben Spitzkopf
