A vintage black-and-white image of two Jewish men wearing stars labeling them as Jewish in Nazi Germany.

Jewish residents in the ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin, Poland, 1942

Jewish residents were required to wear Jewish stars makred “Jude” in many Nazi-occupied areas.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
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