Witek and Wiera Sierpinska collection

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Star of David badge printed Juif worn by a Jew in France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515197
- English
- overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David badge given to Dr. Witek Sierpinski after June 1942 by a Jewish friend who had worn it in France. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, Witek worked in a psychiatric hospital in Lvov, Poland (Lʹviv, Ukraine). In November 1941, he moved to the Warsaw ghetto and joined the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludnosci Zydowskiej w Polsce (TOZ), a ghetto health organization that helped the sick and starving. A former co-worker got him out of the ghetto. By 1942, he was active in various Polish resistance groups, particularly the Armia Ludowa [People’s Guard] (AL). He recruited me...