Badge
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76467
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Badge : Woven, Printed, Sewn : Yellow, Purple, Beige ; Ht: 7,5 cm x W: 7 cm
- Date
- 1942-1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Badge : Woven, Printed, Sewn : Yellow, Purple, Beige ; Ht: 7,5 cm x W: 7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Personal Symbol
- Date
- 1942-1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Fabric badge in shape of diamond. Center is yellow with purple borders. At center is capital letter P in purple. Narrative: Badge belonged to the donor, Aba Beer. While in Germany hiding his Jewish identity and passing as a Polish labourer, he was obliged to wear it to identify himself as non-Aryan. Aba was born in 1922 in Bielsko, Poland. In 1939, he moved east with his parents and sister, settling in Przemy?l. In the summer of 1942, he was included on a transport of 1000 Jews to work as slave labourers in the Janowska concentration camp, near Lviv. He escaped and pretending to be Polish, volunteered to go to Germany as a labourer. He worked in a restaurant in East Prussia until January 1944, when he was arrested for not wearing his badge. He was imprisoned in a castle in Ragnit, and then interned in a prisoner-of-war camp for Russian soldiers. He escaped the camp, joined the Polish partisans as a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), and was liberated in Hela, May 1945.
- Accession No.
- 2014.05.01
- Name Access
- Beer, Jeffrey
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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