Imperial War Museum

I spent a lot of time in The Holocaust Museum. Every part of the museum stroked my emotions in such different ways. When I came to the actual Star of David that the Jews had to wear, I was saddened. The fabric of which the star was made and seeing actual stars that belonged to Jews really touched me. The stars were in two cases right after the “Final Solution” of the full conquest of getting rid of the Jewish community. The case was labeled “Marked Out.” The Star of David has significance because throughout World War Two that was how Jews were identified. In most countries that the Nazis controlled, Nazis ordered Jews to sew a yellow star onto their clothing. Since the Nazis were so intense anyone caught without their star could be imprisoned or simply shot. The yellow stars were first introduced in Poland, which of course was the first country to be occupied by Germany in 1939 and as the Nazis became more powerful they made Jews in other countries wear them from 1941. It just pains me that a symbol of Jewish faith was used against them to humiliate the Jews and mark them out so that people could identify them and stay away from them because they were inferior and seen as subhuman. The yellow star segregated and discriminated the Jews. Later, unfortunately, the yellow star made it easy to round up and deport the Jews to concentration camps. To be called out because of your faith and because after World War One Communists and other Jewish leaders formed a revolt supposedly making the Germans look weak for losing the war does not mean that gives anyone the go ahead to punish everyone of that background. To punish all and humiliate them and destroy their race and culture is completely ridiculous. I still wonder how Hitler got away with as much as he did because his own mother was Jewish and in Jewish culture if the mother is Jewish then the children are Jewish.