Yellow Badge in a Demonstration

In 15 March 2002 in Zurich, Switzerland, demonstrators carried 20 large yellow starsof David with the words Palestinian in English and in Hebrew in the inner hexagonal frame in a campaign against Israeli policy towards the Palestinians

See:

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/selam.htm

Yellow Badge - Self Observation

New video clip by Zeev Barkan showing an art work by Sabina Saad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvD6_tqt8h0

Chaim Rumkowski - Lodz Ghetto

Yellow Badges on the suit of  Chaim Rumkowski

(1877 - 1944)

German Nazi-nominated head of the Jewish authorities in Lodz Ghetto 

Rumkowski and his wife were on the last transport to Auschwitz

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Courtesy of 

Stephanie Comfort 

(c) 

Personal meaning of the yellow Badge

Personal meaning of the yellow Badge

Work by Dvorit Ben-Shaul

In continuation of the exhibition "Homeless - Self Portrait" 

that presented a work titled 

To Cross the abyss of My Life

Photo: Zeev Barkan

See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPBDkFmE00

On Holocaust Day everyone should carry on his garment  a yellow star 
and see himself as if he got out of Auschwitz
Just as in Passover
  "one must see himself as if he came out from Egypt"
(Mishnah Pesachim 10:5 and Haggadah) 

Holocaust Jewish Star in Ghetto Lodz-Litzmannstadt, Poland

Courtesy of Stephanie Comfort ©

And They Took Their Colors

New work by Sabina Saad © dealing with the subject of the artists who perished during the Holocaust

Technique: three-dimensional;; acrylic on palette cut from wood, and brushes

Size: 45 X 29 X 10

This Work is meant to be displayed alongside a blank canvas to inspire the viewer to think about the enormous amount of works that we lost because the artists were murdered , or because their works were destroyed by the Nazis.

Concept:

The place for colors in the palette is covered with yellow stars uprooted from their places.

It is noteworthy that the dominant color in most of the works of artists who perished during the Holocaust (with few exceptions) was the black color.

Readers are invited to add in the COMMENTS section names of artists that perished during the Nazi Era

Costa Rica Yellow Badge new Stamp

Costa Rica issued in 2010 a new Stamp to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The stamp shows a large Yellow Badge made from barbed wire that reminds us of the death camps which were surrounded by barbed wire. The background shows stripes that allude to the uniforms of the prisoners in those camps.

Thanks to Dr Claude WAINSTAIN, Saint-Mandé, FRANCE who referred me to this new stamp.

Russian Yellow Badge Inquiry

Copyright: Marianne G Petrino-Schaad 2009

Marianne wrote to me:

I was wondering if you have seen an authentic yellow star patch with the word for Jew in Russian embroidered on it?
I wondered why someone would make a patch that uses Russian?

I got this patch in June at an antique show. The seller had it in her possession for 30 years. She had bought it from a man in Carlisle, PA, whose father was in WWII and a member of the Nazi party. I have donated it to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. They believe it is a fake patch.
I wonder why anyone would make a fake patch using Russian, instead of German, so it got me to thinking:
could there be an original model?
If so, where would it have come from?

Yellow Badge on a Nazi Propaganda Stamp

Yellow Star, Sabina Saad Family

Caption for Sabina Saad's painting "Alexander Family", which had been shown in her exhibit "Dialog with the Yellow Star" in Mazkeret Batya from 28-3-2009:

Size: 50X35 Acrylic and pencil on canvas.
4 Yellow Badges representing
the hiding of four members of Alexander Family in an attic during the Nazi regime in Italy. Behind the attic Sabina's story about her Alexander family in Italian.

In 1934, the Alexander family that included my grandfather, Paul Leopold, my grandmother Margareta, my uncle Hans, My mother Anni, fled from Leipzig, Germany. They fled to Milan in Italy and remained there until 1939 when my grandfather was arrested. After a month in the jail St. Vittore he was transferred to the concentration camp in Ferramonti in Calabria in south Italy. After three years he was transferred to Fanzolo in the area of Treviso. The other family members joined him in 1943, thinking that the war ended since the Italians surrendered to the Allies. However, the Germans invaded Italy and the family was compelled to find a hideaway. Firstly, they hid in the attic of Tessaro family, and later in the attic of their sister in law Olivia. After the Germans located their headquarters nearby, the small family (with the help of Reverend Don Giuseppe Casarin) found refuge in the Temple of the Madonna Del Caravaggio, where they stayed until the end of the war, and thus they were saved. I, Sabina Saad, the daughter of Anni Alexander, have four children: Kuki, Itai, Noa and Eliel and six grandsons. I live in Israel. My cousin Roberto, the son of Hans, lives in Switzerland and has two children: Jonah and Elianah.

Paul Leopold Alexander

1893-1967. 

Margareta Alexander

1896-1952

Sabina Saad wrote

Elsa Alexander was not Jewish. She was married To Sigmond Alexander who was my grandfather's brother Paul. Her daughter, Inge, born in 1917 perished in the Holocaust.

Walter Alexander was one of eight brothers of my grandfather Paul (they were nine brothers, all sons, he was one before last), he fought for the Germans in the First World War. He was injured by a horse's kick in the head, and a bomb exploded next to him. Following he was hospitalized in a mental hospital. According to my mother, he perished in the Holocaust

Else and Inge Alexander

Walter Alexander

The Wheels Of The Death Trains

The Yellow Badge appears seven times in Jennie Gottschalk’s new work: “Kinder” along with a few Jewish Children’s names out of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. The six yellow Badges in the wheels of the train represent the 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims.
Copyright:Jennie Gottschalk 2009

Memories of the Horrible Nazi Period

This is the cover of a new book (sixth) by Dr. Martin Kieselstein. Title: Memories of the Horrible Nazi Period.  On the cover there is a cut in the shape of the Yellow Badge, which shows the yellow color of the page underneath it. The book is in Hebrew, English and German. It contains pictures of Bronze works created by Dr. Martin Kieselstein. The book was published in a private edition. To contact Dr. Martin Kieselstein

Email: drpikolo@gmail.com

Tel. 97226407148

Holland Jude stamp

Holland issued in 1985 four stamps that mark the 40th year since the end of WWII. This stamp carries the yellow badge with its  'Jude' caption, and another stamp shows a cemetery with Star of David on a headstone. Picture is courtesy of Oded Israeli

The Girl With the Yellow Star

Esther Lurie was born in Latvia in 1913 and lived in Israel since 1934. The Nazis caught her while she was in an exhibit in Europe and sent her to Ghetto Kovno, where she documented by her pencils the life of Jews from 1941 until 1944. This is one of her most famous works: The Girl With the Yellow Star. I wrote about is two years ago, when I started collecting yellow badge art, and now, eventually, I publish this work of art courtesy of pictorial history postcard collector Stephanie Comfort.  

The Anti-Semitism Demon

Size: 40X14X14 cm

Wood box, spring, wood Yellow Badge and acrylic paintings.

Anti-Semitism is hiding usually until it bursts unpredictably. Like demons that were hiding in a box. The Yellow Badge is bigger than the box so that once it’s out there’s no way to put it back. On the sides of the box are painted the flags of Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Holland. There wasn’t enough space for the flags of the other Anti-Semitic countries…

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

65th anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In 2008 the Bank of Poland issued this coin to commemorate 65th anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On the coin we see a Magen David (Yellow Badge) in the shape of barbed wire (which is a well known motif in commemorating the Holocaust) and a girl wearing a beret.

Another coin in this series shows another Magen  David (Yellow Badge) against a brick wall. Courtesy of Gideon from “collect”, the Israeli collectors’ forum. 

Big Smoke

Artist Sabina Saad spent many years in Italy before she came to Israel.  In Italian the comics “balloons” are called FUMETTO, which means small smoke, but Jews in the holocaust went to Heaven in a Big Smoke. There are no words in these “balloons” since Jewish victims’ voices were not heard at that time, and since many Jewish survivors stopped believing in God.

Dialog with a Yellow Badge Series

Ink and color pencil on paper

14.3X14.3 cm.

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Dee Clements

At the Desert Holocaust Memorial in Palm Springs California there are seven bronze statues of Jews standing on a 20 feet marble Star of David (Yellow Badge). Each statue represents an aspect of the Holocaust:

Resistance

Begging for mercy

The boy from Warsaw ghetto

A rabbi praying

A dying man

The memorial was created in 2008 by sculptor Dee Clements (b. 1947) who lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

See the photos