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)
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Joseph Schajewitz * 1901
Wandalenweg 26 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hammerbrook)
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JOSEPH SCHAJEWITZ
JG. 1901
VERHAFTET 1939
GEFÄNGNIS FUHLSBÜTTEL
1940 SACHSENHAUSEN
DEPORTIERT 1940
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET 22.1.1941