Yellow badge
צילום: איי פי
Yellow badge disgrace
Auction house that sold yellow badges dishonored memory of Holocaust victims
What chutzpa this is; a case of showing contempt to and crudely hurting the memory of millions of Jews who were forced to wear the yellow badge before they were sent to be massacred during the Holocaust.
I do not know this auction house called Ben-Ami Andres, and to be honest I have no desire to find out more information about it. Yet I know it did something that must not be done. To its “defense”, the auction house claims that this is not the first time yellow badges have been sold in Israel. If this is indeed the truth, then the injustice and pain are even greater.
There is no longer any shame, there is no longer any conscience, and there is no longer any respect to the memory of those who were murdered. The only thing that matters is to make a small profit.
Moreover, who are those people who gave the auction house these badges, which symbolize the extermination of European Jewry? Perhaps the children or the grandchildren of those who were wearing the badge and miraculously survived the hell imposed on them by the Germans? Don’t these children or grandchildren have any conscience either?
Will they frame it?
And who are those people who saw fit to purchase the yellow badge? What will they be doing with it? Will they frame it and hang it in on their apartment walls, as if they won some kind of prize or a citation? Perhaps they wish to have a greater “diversity” of pictures on their walls?In the apartment of my parents, may they rest in peace, there was such framed badge. My father found this badge when he returned from Auschwitz, in a suitcase that he entrusted at the hands a non-Jewish neighbor. My father hung the badge on the wall in order to remember, and also in order to remind every guest of that terribly dark period.
Yet today, such badge is being sold as an item of decoration? This is unbelievable.
And if someone already decided to sell yellow badges, why not add to the deal a few photographs of one killing field or another or of piles of bodies at death camps? Just to get a greater diversity of pictures in the apartment, you know. Woe to the buyers and woe to the sellers. And what a shame on us.
