A Yellow-Red Star of David Badge sewn into a sheet of cloth, from Auschwitz camp, which belonged to a Slovakian Jew, Holocaust survivor, prisoner of Auschwitz in 1942.
Prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, in the areas occupied by the Nazis during World War II, were marked mainly with badges of colored triangles of cloth, sewn on their clothes. Common labels for prisoners’ markings: Red triangle for political prisoners – trade unionists, communists, Freemasons, anarchists. Green triangle for prone criminals This is how murderers, thieves, robbers, fraudsters, and the like were marked. The Jews were marked by two triangles, placed on top of each other and forming the shape of a Star of David. The lower triangle, with the top facing up, was yellow for Jewish signification, while the upper triangle with the top downward marked the prisoner’s character – “political”, “criminal”, “immigrant”, etc. A regular Jewish prisoner without affiliation was marked with a red-yellow Star of David like the badge before us.
The badge comes with confirmation from the son of the badge holder who gives details about his father’s story during the war years. The confirmation and details will be given to the buyer.
Star of David: 9×8 cm. Cloth sheet: 18×14 cm. Tears at the margins of the cloth sheet. Stains. Good Condition.
