Stumbling Stones Norderstraße 145

This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or Stumbling Stone), which was laid on 23-8-2004, commemorates:

Isaak Fertig
(born 1886, deported to the East, murdered)
Sara Fertig
(born 1893, deported to the East, murdered)
Max Fertig
(born 1924, deported to the East, murdered)
Leo Fertig
(born 1931, deported to the East, murdered)

Isaak Fertig owned a shop, which was placed on the boycott list on 1 April 1933. To avoid further discrimination, the family moved to Hamburg in 1937. Despite having lived in Germany since 1912, Fertig still held Polish citizenship. On 26-10-1938, the Gestapo was ordered to deport all 17,000 Jews with Polish citizenship back to Poland. Entirely destitute, they arrived there and perished in the Holocaust. More details about their deaths are not known.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence or sometimes the hiding address of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is stamped with the victim's name, date of birth, and place (often a Concentration Camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: "A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

Borne was the first place in the Netherlands where Stolpersteine were laid. This happened on 29-11-2007