Edwin "Israel" Bergmann Kennkarte
- Date
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1939
(creation)
- Language
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German
- Extent
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1 identification card.
- Extent
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Margaret Lambert
Identity card: "Kennkarte" [Jewish idenity card] issued to Edwin "Israel" Bergmann (donor's father) in Biberach a.d. Riss (Baden-Württemberg), Germany on January 20, 1939.
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Record last modified: 2018-08-24 12:12:56
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Also in Edwin Bergmann collection
The collection consists of a Star of David badge and an identity card relating to the experiences of Edwin Bergmann in Germany during the Holocaust.
Date: 1939
Star of David badge imprinted Jude owned by a German Jewish man
Object
Star of David badge which belonged to Edwin Bergmann. The origins of the patch are unknown. Edwin escaped Germany in 1939 before badges of this type were made mandatory for Jews in September 1941. The badges were meant to humiliate, separate, and exclude Jews from general society. Edwin, his wife Paula, and youngest son Walter, 3.5 years, left for the United Kingdom in 1939.
