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 62 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
HIER WOHNTE
HILDE DE VRIES
JG. 1925
DEPORTIERT 1941
RIGA-JUNGFERNHOF
ERMORDET
further stumbling stones in Brahmsallee 62:
Sophie De Vries, Wilhelm De Vries, Jürgen Adolf De Vries, Friederike Gärtner, Jacob "James" Gärtner, Bertha Haas, Saly Ernst Haas, Dr. Edgar Haas, Moses Oskar Herz, Maria Muskat
