History Unfolded Part 8: The “Jewish Badge” and the “Threatening Calamity”
The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. It started with stereotyping and hateful words, escalated to stigmatization and discrimination, and culminated in genocide, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Thus the September 1941 order forcing Jews in Germany and occupied territories to wear a yellow star sewn onto their clothes, marked an … Continue reading History Unfolded Part 8: The “Jewish Badge” and the “Threatening Calamity”