A yellow badge of a Jew named Adam Hollander who was murdered in the Holocaust as a teenager. Poland, 1940s.
Adam Hollander was born in Germany in 1929, at the age of 6, his family moved to Leipzig and from there to Lodz - where he was murdered in an attempt to cross the ghetto barbed wire through Zagierski Street when he was about 12 years old. The badge and and number of personal belongings were preserved by a neighbor who collected them into her home after his death, and were handed over to a Jewish survivor who immigrated to Israel after the war.
His name and details were also found in the central database of the names of Holocaust victims at At the Yad Vashem Museum.
6x6 cm. 'Jude' inscription matte. Good condition.
