Under the Nazi regime, Jews were constantly in danger. Up to the time when Jewish badges were implemented, uniform persecution against the Jews could not be accomplished. With the visual labeling of Jews, the years of haphazard persecution quickly changed to organized destruction.
Notes
1. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991) 163.
2. "The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215: Decree Concerning the Garb Distinguishing Jews from Christians, Canon 68" as quoted in Guido Kisch, "The Yellow Badge in History," Historia Judaica 4.2 (1942): 103.
3. Kisch, "Yellow Badge" 105.
4. Kisch, "Yellow Badge" 106.
5. Dawid Sierakowiak, The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 63.
6. Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987) xxi.
7. Lieb Spizman as quoted in Philip Friedman, Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust (New York: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980) 24.
8. Friedman, Roads to Extinction 18.
9. Friedman, Roads to Extinction 18.
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