Distinctive Jewish badge (yellow star) that the Jews of the Netherlands were forced to wear on their clothing by order of the German authorities.
Sofi (Sofia) Langer née Asscher was born in Groningen, the Netherlands in 1925. Members of the Dutch underground provided Sofi with false documents and found her several hiding places throughout the Netherlands. Sofi survived and immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) in 1946, where she was reunited with her mother, who had arrived in 1943 as part of an exchange of German Templars with a group of Jewish Bergen-Belsen inmates. The members of the Dutch resistance who saved Sofi were later recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Jacob Langer, Kfar Saba, Israel
Yad Vashem Photo Archives
