My Great Uncle, Howard Wainberg, took part in the liberation of Holland as a Canadian Royal Engineer. During the liberation the prisoners were tearing the stars off their uniforms, he approached one and asked if he could have the star. The prisoner was happy to oblige and he brought it back to Canada and gave it to his sister, my Grandmother. My family is Jewish and we lost people in the camps, but some did survive. The word on this star, Juis, is French for Jew as opposed to Jude, which is German.
Julie Martin - WWII Yellow Jewish Star
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