Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The badge was issued to Albert Jahndorf at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in order to identify him as a Jehovah's Witness prisoner.
- Date
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use:
1940-1945
- Geography
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issue:
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp);
Oranienburg (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Annemarie and Waltraud Kusserow
- Markings
- front, right, printed in black ink : 46436
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Albert Jahndorf
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Badges (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- The badge is in the shape of a rectangle and is marked with a purple upside-down triangle on the left and the number "46436" on the right.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cloth, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- Corporate Name
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Annemarie and Waltraud Küsserow.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-15 10:20:07
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49802
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The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps and photographs and documents related to the Kusserow family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1939-1945
White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness
Object
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Franz Kusserow family papers
Document
Consists of a scrapbook of various documents and photographs concerning the Franz Kusserow family during the Holocaust. The materials deal with the persecution, imprisonment, and execution of the Kusserow family members and acquaintances of the family as a result of their affiliation with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Photograph of the Kusserow family
Document
The photograph depicts a clandestine visit among the Kusserow children, Elizabeth, Hans-Werner, and Paul-Gerhard, their mother, and their two older brothers, Willhelm and Karl, near Minden, Germany.
