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Nazi orders for Jews to wear a star were hateful, but far from unique – a historian traces the long history of antisemitic badges
The yellow star had transformed them, in onlookers’ eyes, from joyous newlyweds into miserable Jews. Decades later, I completed a Ph.D. on the history of forcing Jewish people to wear a badge.
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Greece Marks Departure of First Death Train to Auschwitz for Thessaloniki Jews
Greece marked the anniversary of the departure in 1943 of the first train from Thessaloniki taking Jews to Auschwitz death ...
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A Chicago TV station used a Nazi symbol to explain a Jewish holiday
In it, the station used an image of the badge that Nazis forced Jews to wear. It's a picture of the Star of David with the German word for "Jew." Even before the Nazis, the yellow badge was a ...
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Jewish Persecution: The Crusades, the Inquisition, and Pogroms
The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) forced Jews to wear distinctive clothing, such as yellow badges. Papal decrees restricted Jewish professions and land ownership. Forced conversions were ...
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Flory Jagoda, champion of Sephardic music, dies at 97
Jagoda recalled how her childhood music teacher declined to teach her anymore after the Germans arrived and forced the Jews to wear identifying yellow badges adorned with a “z.” When she ...
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Anti-vaccine activists are using a Holocaust-era yellow Star of David to promote their cause
(JTA) — Anti-vaccination activists are using the yellow Star of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during World War II to promote their cause. Activists are using a star that has the words ...
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Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Auschwitz remembrance march
Some protesters wore yellow badges in the shape of stars, which appeared to resemble those that the Nazi authorities forced Jews to wear shortly after the German invasion of Poland in 1939.