Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
Overview
- Date
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1943-1944
- Geography
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use:
Shanghai (China)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eric Bergtraun
- Contributor
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Subject:
Eric Bergtraun
- Biography
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Eric Bergtraun (1925-2008) was born Erich Maximilian Bergtraun in Vienna to Edmund Leon Bergtraun and Lilly Wagner Bergtraun. His family left Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco, and married Polly Bergtraun (nee Hertz).
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Badges (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- red triangle, folded in half; "13" handwritten in pencil on outside upper right corner; black with red border on inside; "EINMAL EIN/PFADFINDER/IMMER EIN/PFADFINDER./B.P./JAHRESFEIR/ 1943/44 /Polly" hand written in red ink on small piece of paper adhered inside.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
- Materials
- overall : leather, paper, ink, adhesive, graphite, cloth
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Eric Bergtraun.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-21 13:26:31
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn13818
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The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs and photo albums, log books, biographical materials, badges, and uniforms relating to Boy Scout activities of Eric Bergtraun and other Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China.
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Eric Bergtraun papers
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The Eric Bergtraun papers consist of biographical materials, photographic materials, log books, and scrapbooks documenting Bergtraun’s participation in Boy Scout activities as a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during and after World War II.
