yellow badge

yellow badge

English

Noun

yellow badge (plural yellow badges)

1. (historical) A cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.

Synonyms

• Jewish badge, yellow patch, yellow star

Translations

cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public

Dutch: Jodenster (nl) f French: étoile jaune (fr) f German: Judenstern (de) m

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