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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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SATURDAY

Black triangles

Undesirables taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Buchenwald

April 30 1938 marked the tenth and last day of “Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich,” a punitive campaign targeting individuals deemed “work-shy” and “asocial.” The designation was sufficiently broad to target a vast array of elements deemed “undesirable” by the Nazis. Between 1,500 and 2,000 men thus classified were taken to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in this first wave of such arrests, including Jews. They were identified by black triangles on their prison uniforms.


TAGS: ANTISEMITISM, APRIL 30, BUCHENWALD, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, DOCUMENT, IMPRISONMENT, JUNI-AKTION, NAZI LAWS, NAZI POLICIES

SOURCE

Institution:

Bundesarchiv Bild

Collection:

Table of Colored Classification Symbols for Prisoners in Concentration Camps

Original:

Image 146-1993-051-07

 

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