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Yellow patch of a girl from the Prague Ghetto who was sent to the Theresienstadt camp - Yellow cloth patch with the inscription ”Jude” belonging to the girl Victoria Brigita Klaus from Prague, who was sent to Theresienstadt and survived the inferno. Extremely rare. Prague – Theresienstadt, early 1940s. Due to BidSpirit policy, this item cannot be sold on this platform. To submit offers, click  here Victoria Brigita Klaus was born on November 25, 1930, in Prague. When the regulations of the German Reich came into effect requiring Jews in public spaces to wear a yellow patch on their clothing, Victoria was only 14 years old. She refused to wear the patch on her clothing. One of the neighbors who saw her leaving without the patch reported her to the authorities as a Jew walking without the patch. As a result of this denunciation, she was arrested and taken to the Theresienstadt camp at the beginning of 1945, as part of transport AE4 from Prague to Theresienstadt. Her prisoner number at the time of deportation was 400. She remained in the camp until the end of the war and was highly independent and strong. In May 1945, her mother came to collect her from the camp after the war ended, finding her daughter severely ill with typhus. Recovery from the illness took many months after the war. After the war, Brigita lived in London and led a full life. She was an autodidact and spoke fluent Polish, English, Hebrew, German, Czech, and Italian. A family member recounts that she was a well-known and respected figure in West Hampstead, London. She loved opera and often traveled to Italy just to attend performances. Brigita had no children and never married. (The details about her were provided to us by the relative who gave us the patch to the auction). According to the regulations of the German Reich from 1938, all Jews in German-occupied territories were required to wear a yellow patch. The regulation also applied to occupied countries under Nazi German control. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the order requiring Jews over the age of six to wear the patch was imposed on September 1, 1941. The patch was in the shape of a Star of David (a six-pointed star) in yellow, with the word “Jude” (“Jew”) in the center of the fabric. During the period in which the order was enforced, many Jews in the Protectorate had already been sent to death camps, and the identification tag was part of the mechanism of oppression. For further information about Brigita, see record no. 4911343 in the Yad Vashem Names Database (under the name Brigitta Klausova). Brigita's name also appears in the Terezín Memorial Book in the list of survivors – Terezín Initiative, Volumes I–II, Prague 1995, and Volume III, Prague 2000. It is extremely rare to find yellow patches belonging to those who were children during the Holocaust. The patch comes from a relative of Brigita. Size: 8×7 cm. Good condition.