The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 February 14
…Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Hans Benjamin Marx while living under the Nazi dictatorship in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, between September…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1454 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1454
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after the German invasion in May 1940; seeing soldiers in the streets; wearing the yellow star; the disappearances; being deported with her family to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.19 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0019
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the yellow star and number insignia the Germans assigned to him in Leitmeritz; his experience with Polish Kapos in Leitmeritz; his time spent in the…
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…:09:58,050 We wore a yellow star of David plus a number. 172 00:09:58,050 --> 00:10:02,250 Mine was 84,532. 173 00:10:02,250 --> 00:10:07,210 I had to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.14 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0014
Date:
interview: 1992 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in Hungary; the anti-Jewish laws; the creation of work camps in 1941-1942, which did not affect him; the yellow…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.328 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0328
Date:
interview: 1998 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish children in her own home; the antisemitism of children in Prague; the introduction of the yellow star; preparations for the deportation to Terezin…
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… for spelling or accuracy. 2:10:00 She explains what anti-Semitism in the “Czech style” was like. 2:11:00 She mentions the introduction of the yellow…
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… German. 11 August 1941. 97. Decree that Jews over the age of 6 may not appear in public without displaying a six- pointed yellow star with black edges and…
… Michalovce was now part of the newly formed fascist state of Slovakia, which was dependent on Nazi Germany. The authorities introduced the yellow star badge to…
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… to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016. Related materials: Irene Frank also donate her patch from the Merzdorf labor camp and a yellow…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.55 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0055
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…'clock in the evening, six o'clock in the morning. How about wearing armbands or badges? This came in 1942. No schools? https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
… yellow Star of David badge to make them easy to identify. At the end of the month, Reinhard Heydrich, SS Chief of Security for the Reich, became Reich…
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… United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989. Separated material: The yellow Star of David badge from Theresienstadt that was item 67 in the scrapbook…
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