Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of badges, an armband, savings stamp cards, postcards, documents, photographs, and laborer's work books related to the use of forced laborers from western, eastern, and southern Europe in Vienna, Austria, and to the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005.
Browse 17 Items In This Collection
Forced labor book collection, 1938-1945
Document | Accession Number: 2005.506.1 | RG Number: RG-17.009
Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with Jude, German for Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.2
Unused yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with Jude, German for Jew
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.3
Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.4
Unused forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.5
Unused forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.6
Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.7
Used forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, sewn to gray felt backing for use by a Polish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.8
Red metal badge with the letter P and the prisoner number of a Polish inmate of Dachau
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.9
Purple armband with a V to identify a prisoner from Flanders
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.10
Unused forced labor badge, blue field with OST in white letters, to identify a forced laborer from the Soviet Union
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.11
Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 1 Reichsmark
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.12
![Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 1 Reichsmark](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=523549&mm_irn=35112&file=thumb "Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 1 Reichsmark")
Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 3 Reichsmark
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.13
![Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 3 Reichsmark](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=523550&mm_irn=35113&file=thumb "Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 3 Reichsmark")
Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 5 Reichsmark
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.14
![Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 5 Reichsmark](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=523551&mm_irn=35114&file=thumb "Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 5 Reichsmark")
Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 10 Reichsmark
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.15
![Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 10 Reichsmark](https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=523552&mm_irn=35115&file=thumb "Ostarbeiter [Eastern worker] Sparmarke [savings stamp] block, 10 Reichsmark")
Unused trilingual paid reply postcards for use by forced laborers from eastern Europe
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.16
Unused trilingual paid reply postcards for use by forced laborers from eastern Europe
Object | Accession Number: 2005.506.17
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