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
Werderstraße 66 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
FELIX STRAUSS
JG. 1883
FLUCHT 1934 BELGIEN
INTERNIERT GURS
VERHAFTET 29.12.1942
GEFÄNGNIS ANNECY
FLUCHT SCHWEIZ
further stumbling stones in Werderstraße 66:
Esther Fanny Bachrach, Miriam Falk, Eva Kaufman, Bertha Strauss, Walter Yom Tov Strauss, Martin Mordechai Strauss, Jakob Strauss
