Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

Identifier: irn723088
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn723088

Acquisition

Wilhelm Kroepfl donated the papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994. He loaned the badge to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 and converted it to a donation in 2012.

Scope and Content

The Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection contains documents and an identification badge relating to the imprisonment of Josef Kohout at Flossenbürg concentration camp, who was persecuted as a gay man.

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White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn15325
- English
- overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
White patch with an inverted red triangle and black inked prisoner number 1896 worn by Josef Kohout while incarcerated from May 1940-April 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp for violating statute 175, which punished indecent acts between men. After being liberated during a death march, Josef replaced his filthy, tattered uniform with civilian clothing. Before destroying the uniform, he removed this badge to keep as a memento of his ordeal. Josef was from Vienna, Austria. After it was annexed by Germany in March 1938, German laws were aggressively enforced. The Nazi regime viewed homosex...
Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507361
- English
- 1939-1948
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains correspondence, camp vouchers, identification cards, certificates, court documents, and diary fragments relating to the imprisonment of Josef Kohout at Flossenbürg concentration camp (persecuted as a homosexual); attempts by his parents, Josef and Amilia Kohout, to visit him in the camp; his participation in a death march and liberation by American troops; and the reversal of criminal charges against him after World War II.

Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

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White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate

Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers