Guide through the Holding Funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Macedonia (Skopje: State Archive of the Republic of Macedonia, 1996) Водич (Скопје: Државен Архив на РМ, 1996)

Traces the adoption of a Jewish "badge" in Islamic and Christian European countries, created in order to distinguish the Jews from the rest of the population. The first such item, a special head covering, was decreed by Caliph al-Mutawakkil in the 9th century. A decision of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 marked the onset of Jewish badges in Christian Europe. In both of the above cases its color ...

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Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow ...

Sal de Zwarte (donor, cameraman, and brother of Collette de Zwarte) was Jewish and deported to Westerbork. After he was released to be sterilized, he survived by hiding in the basement of the hotel he worked in as a waiter before the war. His wife, Frida Coster de Zwarte, remained in Amsterdam with the children, trying to prove her Aryan status. Their daughter Miep Koenig was in the 1940 wedding as ...

M.79 - Documentation of the Jewish community of Luxembourg regarding the persecution of Luxembourg Jews during the Holocaust, 1932-1990
 
 The files extend from 1932 to 1990, but the core period is 1940 to 1947.
 
 The documentation deals with Jewish daily life under the German occupation:
 
 - Confiscations; 
 
 - The yellow badge and marking of Jewish houses; ...

Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu

Digital copy available as collection KD_00015 at Kazerne Dossin

Used Star of David badge given to 18 year old Bettina Mayer in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by another camp resident. It was worn by the unknown person in Cologne, Germany, and it was given to Bettina because she was originally from Cologne. Jews were ordered to were a Judenstern badge at all times to identify them as Jews. Bettina, her parents, Siegmund and Johannette, and her brother, ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia ...

Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World War I veteran from Schlabendorf, Germany. Ella was born on April 9, 1893, in Berlin. Alice's brother Heinz Alfred was born on June 9, 1923. The family considered themselves Germans who were Jewish. They celebrated high holidays, irregularly attended synagogue, ...

P.6 - Archive of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, 1924-1947 
 
 The personal archive of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, 1924-1941 and 1944-1947, includes 119 bound collections of documents which were submitted to Yad Vashem in 1967.
 
 Dr. Wilhelm Filderman was the leader of Romanian ...

Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) was born on November 4, 1922, in Craciunesti, Romania, to a Jewish couple, Lazar (Zvi) Eliezer and Regina (Rywka) Chaya Perl Feuerwerker. Zvi was born on August 24, 1893, in Tiszakarácsonyfalva (later Craciunesti), and had 1 sister. He worked as a timber cutter, floating the large logs down river in Romania to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Rywka was born in 1897, ...

The Paul Tauchner collection includes a numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform, a Buchenwald concentration camp badge, a Russian army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf ...

Files 4-8, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23 contain decrees, orders regarding management of subordinate territories and, in particular, the Jewish population of Vinnytsia and region. The documents contain information on imposition of indemnities, exploitation of Jewish labor, payment for work, taxes, requirement to wear marking signs in the form of bandages and badges with hexagonal star, forcible relocation to ...

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Alexander Katzenbogen was born January 24, 1916, in Tartu, Estonia. His parents were both doctors. His father was from a secular Jewish background; his mother was the daughter of Rabbi Tuvia Lobitzki of Volkovysk, Poland (now in Belarus). When Alexander was two years old, the family moved to Vilna, Lithuania. The atmosphere in the home as he was growing up was liberal. His parents were socialists; ...

Session 46. May 19, 1961. Alexander Arnon talks about wearing the Star of David badge. He is interrupted by the Prosecution, and asked about the forced payment of 100,000,000 Denars, with 60 Denars equal to an American Dollar at the time. Following that, legislation that required wearing the Jewish Star was put into effect. The court decides that photographing the badge he holds up will suffice for ...

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Documentation of the Judenrats in the Lwow region, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Correspondence between the vehicle repair workshops in Drohobycz and the Judenrat, regarding economic matters and the use of the Jewish labor force; requests to the Stadtkommissar by the Judenrat of the city of Boryslaw, regarding various subjects; establishment of Jewish businesses; collection ...

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The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, slides, sound recordings, and sheets of unused Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Jeanne Daman and her efforts to rescue Jewish residents of Belgium and to resist the German occupation of that country during World War II, as well as her postwar work in the United States with the United Jewish Appeal.