Back to Leipzig and this is a badge from the Theresienstadt Ghetto (a town in the Czech Republic, now known as Terezín), where I went a couple of years ago but that’s something else I’ve just realised that I haven’t written up.
Between 1942 and 1945, seven deportation trains departed from Leipzig, carrying hundreds of Jewish residents who had been stripped of their rights, property and dignity. The final transport, which left in early 1945, reached Theresienstadt just weeks before the camp was liberated by Soviet forces in May.
Not much more is known about this little piece of cloth, but the fragment remaining deserves at least some attention for what it now commemorates.