Stolperstein - Isak Goldmann Meyer

If you turn your gaze down the street you will be able to see a stone with an engraved brass plate, inscribed with the name Isak Goldmann Meyer. Isak was one of 773 Jews in Norway who were arrested and deported to German concentration camps during the Second World War. Only 35 of them survived and Isak was killed on the very day that he arrived in Auschwitz on the 1st of December 1942. The stone that you can see, is known as a stolperstein, these were set up over the whole world as a Holocaust memorial. To commemorate the lives of the Jews who were victims of the Nazi’s genocide of the Jews before and during the Second World War, when more than 6 million Jews were murdered. Isak ran the Beklædningsmagasinet A/S shop here in Hammerfest from 1927 until his arrest by the Nazis in 1942. He was married and had a daughter in Poland but lived alone in the house that you see here Kirkegata 22. He was described as a sympathetic, but reserved man, whom people liked to trade with, and his shop was especially well known for the beautiful classical music that he always had playing inside. Please take a minute to not only remember the horrible fate of Isak and all the other Jews, but also all those who have faced injustices in their lives.