# Herman Smith

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The Herman Smith memorial is a ten-by-ten-centimetre brass tile set into worn grey paving beside a home. It marks the doorstep where Herman lived with Bergljot and their three children.

Born on 13 February 1907, Herman became a respected businessman whose household also held music. Bergljot sang, while Herman played several instruments at home.

In 1940, Herman and his family fled over the mountains to Finland, but later returned to care for relatives. The occupied country became part of their story again.

Because Herman was Jewish, authorities interned him at Sydspissen camp before deporting him to Auschwitz. He died there on his thirty-sixth birthday, 13 February 1943.

This stone places his name at the threshold of ordinary family life, where daily routines once unfolded. The brass square keeps that household visible in Norway.

Its small surface links Herman’s birth, work, music, flight, imprisonment, and death without leaving the pavement. The memorial gives one name a lasting place.

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