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
Wohlers Allee 44 (Altona, Altona-Altstadt)
HIER WOHNTE
CYRL SERL
SCHILLAJ
GEB. GLEITSMANN
JG. 1877
´POLENAKTION‘ 1938
FLUCHT 1939 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1943 SOBIBOR
ERMORDET 14.5.1943
further stumbling stones in Wohlers Allee 44:
Karl-Heinz Danker, Carl Danker
