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  • 1. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness

    Max was put in a punishment commando and issued a uniform with a purple triangle patch. After two ... front left breast with white thread: an inverted purple triangle with the lower point covered by a

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  • 2. Two concentration camp badges bearing purple triangles worn by Jehovah's Witnesses.

    Two concentration camp badges bearing purple triangles worn by Jehovah's Witnesses.

    ARTIFACTS N; BADGES (PURPLE TRIANGLE) N; BADGES N; CONCENTRATION CAMPS (ARTIFACTS) N; JEHOVAH ... Two concentration camp badges bearing purple triangles worn by Jehovah's Witnesses. The badge

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  • 3. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    his Flossenbürg prisoner number, 38641, beside a purple triangle marking him as a Jehovah’s Witness ... rectangular, white cloth prisoner patch with a faded, inverted purple triangle, with 38641 stenciled in black

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  • 4. Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    Concentration camp uniform coat with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    with his Flossenbürg prisoner number, 38641, beside a purple triangle marking him as a Jehovah ... white cloth prisoner patch with a faded, inverted purple triangle, with 38641 stenciled in black beside

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  • 5. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah ... purple inverted triangle badge identified him as a Jehovah’s Witness; the white patch above it has his

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  • 6. Striped prison jacket with an inverted purple triangle badge worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah's Witness, during his imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp.

    Striped prison jacket with an inverted purple triangle badge worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah's Witness, during his imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp.

    ARTIFACTS N; BADGES (PURPLE TRIANGLE) N; BADGES N; CLOTHING N; CONCENTRATION CAMPS (ARTIFACTS) N ... 's Witness, during his imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp. The purple triangle badge was used to

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  • 7. The striped overcoat of a prison uniform worn at the Buchenwald concentration camp bearing a purple triangle on the number patch.

    The striped overcoat of a prison uniform worn at the Buchenwald concentration camp bearing a purple triangle on the number patch.

    ARTIFACTS N; BADGES (PURPLE TRIANGLE) N; BADGES N; BUCHENWALD N; CONCENTRATION CAMPS (ARTIFACTS) N ... triangle on the number patch. The prisoner number is #38641. The inverted purple triangle badge ... triangle on the number patch.

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  • 8. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp

    Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp

    Purple velvet tallit bag with a Star of David sewn by Lili Lax, 21, for her husband-to-be Ludwig ... Rectangular, hand sewn, dark purple, velvet tallit pouch. Embroidered in the front center is a

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  • 9. White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness

    White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness ... Rectangular white cloth badge marked with a purple inverted triangle on the right and the number

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  • 10. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket with number patch and red triangle

    Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket with number patch and red triangle

    Blue and gray striped uniform jacket with a prisoner number and red triangle of the type worn by ... for homosexuals, and purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. These were worn on the left side of the chest or

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  • 11. Inverted red triangle patch with T made by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

    Inverted red triangle patch with T made by a Jewish Czech concentration camp inmate

    Used, lightweight red cloth inverted triangle patch with the letter T applied in black ink near the ... purple thread.

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  • 12. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps

    Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps

    triangles. Homosexuals were identified with pink triangles and Jehovah's Witnesses with purple ones. Non ... combining a colored inverted triangle with lettering. The badges sewn onto prisoner uniforms enabled SS ... . Criminals were marked with green inverted triangles, political prisoners with red, "asocials" (including ... sewn onto their badge. The two triangles forming the Jewish star badge would both be yellow unless the

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  • 13. Prisoners of the Camps

    wore black triangles. Jehovah's Witnesses wore purple and homosexuals pink. Letters indicated ... found. Prisoners were required to wear color-coded triangles on their jackets so that the guards and ... each other. Political prisoners, such as Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists wore red triangles

    Holocaust Encyclopedia

  • 14. Jehovah's Witnesses

    Purple Triangle: The Bibelforscher (Jehovah’s Witnesses) in the Concentration Camps.” In Dachau and the ... Purple Triangle and Follow Me: Jehovah's Witnesses under the East German Regime [videorecording]. Berlin ... Girl With the Purple Triangle and Follow Me) examine the persecution and resistance of Jehovah ... America and more than twenty Witness survivors. Purple Triangles: The True Story of a German Family

  • 15. Postage stamp

    Postage stamp

    is solid purple but contains “Deutsches Reich” along the top and “Mark” along the bottom. Triangles ... purple circle. A small triangle extends from the top, bottom, right and left of the outer oval and ... between the corner triangles. This entire image in contained within a thin purple line that creates the ... is found on one side. The ink is purple in color and the inked rectangle is smaller in size than the

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  • 16. Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness ... The badge is in the shape of a rectangle and is marked with a purple upside-down triangle on the

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  • 17. Kusserow family collection

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness

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  • 18. Photograph of the Kusserow family

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness

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  • 19. Franz Kusserow family papers

    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness

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  • 20. Scarf

    Scarf

    Red with white triangle; sewn in white area: green patch with yellow and purple embroidered Chinese

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  • 21. Three red pennants with swastikas found by an American solider

    Three Nazi pennants, red triangles with swastikas, arranged on twine, found by 20 year old Sergeant ... received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal for his exemplary conduct in combat. The war ended when ... Purple Heart. Anthony’s regiment fought in Luxembourg during the Battle of the Bulge, then crossed the ... a. Lightweight, red cloth triangle with a 4.250 inch white circle with a black mobile swastika in

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  • 22. Pair of wool mid-calf socks worn by a Yugoslavian man

    Pair of wool mid-calf socks worn by a Yugoslavian man

    foot is decorated with stars, diamonds, triangles, and other geometric shapes in orange, purple, and ... green. The sole has a purple and orange chevron pattern while the heel has green, orange, and purple ... red and green geometric shapes. The top of the foot is decorated with stars, diamonds, triangles, and ... other geometric shapes in orange, purple, and green. The sole has a purple and orange chevron pattern

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  • 23. Oral history interview with Hermine Schmidt

    released into the care of the Red Cross; the teachings of the Bible; having to wear a purple triangle badge

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  • 24. Oral history interview with Ruth Danner

    wear special clothing or a purple triangle; having a German bible; standing up to the SS and relying on

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  • 25. Regina face powder box with a crown design marked Rachel

    Regina face powder box with a crown design marked Rachel

    base exterior, bottom, lower center, stamped, purple ink : Rachel I ... design on top features an inverted white triangle dividing the circle into 3 sections; orange at the ... bottom and white at the top. Within the triangle is the logo of a gold crown above a black rectangle with ... Bulgarian Cyrillic text, and a purple stamp. The box interior has a sealed powder drum and powder.

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