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Jewish badges from Lithuania

Distinctive Jewish badges (yellow stars) that the Jews of Lithuania were forced to wear on their clothing by order of the German authorities.

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Jewish badge that belonged to Polina Toker, from Siauliai, Lithuania.
Jewish badge that belonged to Polina Toker, from Siauliai, Lithuania.

Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Polina Toker, Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish badge that belonged to Polina Toker, from Siauliai, Lithuania.
Jewish badge that belonged to Elias Sesolis who was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto.
Jewish badge that belonged to Elias Sesolis who was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto.

Elias Sesolis from France went together with his wife and child to visit his parents, thus suffering the fate of the local Jews. He was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto, sent to labor camps, and survived.

Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Elias Sesolis, Paris, France

Jewish badge that belonged to Elias Sesolis who was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto.
Yechezkel Fleischer, a Jew in Siauliai, Lithuania, wearing the yellow star on his clothes, 1941.
Yechezkel Fleischer, a Jew in Siauliai, Lithuania, wearing the yellow star on his clothes, 1941.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives

Yechezkel Fleischer, a Jew in Siauliai, Lithuania, wearing the yellow star on his clothes, 1941.
Emanuel and Avraham Rosenthal from Lithuania wearing the yellow star on their clothes.
Emanuel and Avraham Rosenthal from Lithuania wearing the yellow star on their clothes.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives

Emanuel and Avraham Rosenthal from Lithuania wearing the yellow star on their clothes.
Jewish badge that belonged to Polina Toker, from Siauliai, Lithuania.
Jewish badge that belonged to Polina Toker, from Siauliai, Lithuania.
Jewish badge that belonged to Elias Sesolis who was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto.
Jewish badge that belonged to Elias Sesolis who was imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto.
Yechezkel Fleischer, a Jew in Siauliai, Lithuania, wearing the yellow star on his clothes, 1941.
Yechezkel Fleischer, a Jew in Siauliai, Lithuania, wearing the yellow star on his clothes, 1941.
Emanuel and Avraham Rosenthal from Lithuania wearing the yellow star on their clothes.
Emanuel and Avraham Rosenthal from Lithuania wearing the yellow star on their clothes.
Jewish Badges