yellow badge

discriminatory instrument

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antisemitism

  • Antisemitism demonstration in Paris
    In antisemitism: Antisemitism in medieval Europe

    …of 12th-century antisemitism, the compulsory yellow badge that identified the wearer as a Jew, was also revived by the Nazis. The practice of segregating the Jewish populations of towns and cities into ghettos dates from the Middle Ages and lasted until the 19th and early 20th centuries in much of…

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