Further augmentations to the thread, including images taken at the permanent exhibitions at Gedenkstätte-Sachsenhausen and Mahn-und Gedenkstätten Ravensbrück.
Further augmentations to the thread, including images taken at the permanent exhibitions at Gedenkstätte-Sachsenhausen and Mahn-und Gedenkstätten Ravensbrück.
The image above left displays insignia for a Jewish political prisoner both from before mid-1944 and after mid-1944. The star form - constructed using two separate pieces, one being a yellow triangle and another red, was used up until mid-1944, afterwhich, the red Winkel was used with a yellow band sewn above - the red signified that the inmate was a political prisoner.
The insignia on the woman's dress from f.KL-Ravensbrück shown in the bottom picture indicates that she was also a political prisoner - note the red triangle, of Yugoslav descent ("J" = "Jugoslawen")
My contribution to this thread :
I cannot make out the Belgian prisoner's number shown in the attachment. Is it clearer in hand..?
A fact often overlooked - which can be understood due to the well known yet partly staged photographs taken by Soviet liberators at the Stammlager (main camp) at Auschwitz, is that small children did not wear striped uniforms, save for, in all likelihood, one example. The Buchenwald Kind Stefan Jerzy Zweig, who arrived at the camp aged three, was given a specially made uniform at the camp and reportedly taught to sing songs and parade around for the guards entertainment. Small children generally wore the clothing that they arrived in, such as the pieces shown in the attachment below, an image taken around the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz back in 2007. The display forms part of the permanent exhibition.
Carl
At Buchenwald, this inverted red cloth triangle forms part of the permanent exhibition. This type of insignia was issued to a Polish political prisoner.
At KZ-Gedenkstätte-Flossenbürg, more examples on display as part of their permanent exhibition including a female inmate uniform.
Another major camp museum displays a prisoner uniform, this time, Herzogenbusch.
Hinzert. The jacket shown below is marked LUX and was issued to one of the many inmates at the camp who originated from Luxembourg.
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