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
Rappstraße 13 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE
NATHAN HIRSCH
OFFENBURG
JG. 1866
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 11.5.1943
further stumbling stones in Rappstraße 13:
Ruth Bieber, Hans-Adolf Frankenthal, Siegfried Frankenthal, Hans Hoffmann, Frieda Hoffmann, Walter Hoffmann, Heimann Horwitz, Minna Lazarus, Hanna Offenburg, Irmgard Posner, Karl Posner
