A clothing tag of a Jew from a concentration camp - 1940s. Inmate Number 1073.

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A clothing tag of a Jew from a concentration camp - 1940s. Inmate Number 1073.

The prisoners in the concentration and extermination camps were classified according to the cause of imprisonment: red triangle: political, green triangle - criminals, purple triangle - 'biblical sermons', rose triangle - homosexuals, black triangle - opponents of socialism, inverted triangle on a yellow background - Jews. (See the same example in the permanent display of the Yad Vashem Museum - The red triangle symbolized the cause of his imprisonment as a Jewish 'political prisoner'). Next to the red triangle on the yellow background the number of the prisoner was stamped, and the whole sheet was sewn to the uniform of the prisoner in front on the right side of the chest. These markings for Jews were customary in the Auschwitz concentration camp until June 30, 1944, from which date the Jewish prisoners were marked in the same way as the non-Jewish prisoners, except that a yellow stripe was added parallel to the top of the triangle. 

Provanance: Family of Romanian Holocaust survivors - Baruch and Deborah Berkowitz from Kiryat Gat.

Size: 21x11 cm. Stains. few loose threads. Good condition.