Nazi orders for Jews to wear a star were hateful, but far from unique – a historian traces the long history of antisemitic badges
- Written by Flora Cassen, Chair and Associate Professor of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University in St Louis
The Nazis made the yellow badge infamous around the world, but its roots are much older.Roger Viollet/Getty ImagesGrowing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my grandparents married during the Nazi occupation. It was not a time for celebrations, particularly for Jewish families like theirs. Naively, though, they thought marriage would...