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!זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק Jewish Prisoner Badge from Auschwitz. Yellow-and-red Star of David badge of a Jewish prisoner, sewn onto cloth. Auschwitz concentration camp, 1942. [1] badge, bearing prisoner number 0964 and identifying the prisoner as Jewish through a Star of David formed by overlapping yellow and red triangles, with the infamous inscription: “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” “AUSCHWITZ 1942” The badge is sewn onto a striped cloth fragment. Background: Prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War were classified into various categories and identified by colored cloth triangle badges sewn onto their uniforms. Among the categories were: red triangles for political prisoners, green triangles for habitual criminals, purple triangles for conscientious objectors, and others. Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz were identified by a Star of David composed of two triangles: a yellow lower triangle indicating Jewish identity and an upper triangle whose color denoted the prisoner's classification category. Stains, colors faded over the passage of decades. Good condition.