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
Brahmsallee 17 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
PHILIPP AUERBACH
JG. 1906
FLUCHT 1936 BELGIEN
INTERNIERT SAINT-CYPRIEN
DEPORTIERT 1944 AUSCHWITZ
KZ BUCHENWALD
BEFREIT
FLUCHT IN DEN TOD 1952
further stumbling stones in Brahmsallee 17:
Leopold Appel, Aron Auerbach, Henny Schwabe, Julius Schwabe
