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
; "Heinz Wolfers als 17jähriger Schüler")
Hofweg 31 (Hamburg-Nord, Uhlenhorst)
HIER WOHNTE
HEINZ WOLFERS
JG. 1908
EINGEWIESEN 1935
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
"VERLEGT"
HEILANSTALT STRECKNITZ
TOT 3.5.1940
further stumbling stones in Hofweg 31:
Hugo Wolfers, Olga Wolfers
