Regierung
Номер объектаM1996/008
НазваниеRegierung
ОписаниеCloth badge with the letter "R" embroidered on it, standing for "Regierung" (Government), indicating that the wearer was a labourer in an essential government industry. It enabled Jews working in the petroleum factory in the town of Drohobycz, Poland, in 1942, to move from the ghetto to the factory with relative safety. This badge which belonged to Dr Osias Szumer, is one of approximately 300 badges distributed to essential workers at the oil refinery by Berthold Beitz, a German industrialist in charge of the industry.
Berthold Beitz worked for an oil company when the war broke out. But rather than calling him up for active duty, the Nazis sent him to supervise the Borislav oil fields, which had fallen into German hands with the invasion of Poland in 1939. Oil was crucial to Hitler’s war machine, and Mr. Beitz wielded considerable power. He used it to create unneeded jobs that spared hundreds of Poles and Jews from being deported to death camps. After the war, Poland awarded him its highest civilian honour, and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel, honoured him as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1973, its highest recognition for non-Jews who saved Jews from the Holocaust. He is credited with saving some 250 Jewish workers by declaring them to be essential workers at the oil facility.
Berthold Beitz worked for an oil company when the war broke out. But rather than calling him up for active duty, the Nazis sent him to supervise the Borislav oil fields, which had fallen into German hands with the invasion of Poland in 1939. Oil was crucial to Hitler’s war machine, and Mr. Beitz wielded considerable power. He used it to create unneeded jobs that spared hundreds of Poles and Jews from being deported to death camps. After the war, Poland awarded him its highest civilian honour, and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel, honoured him as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1973, its highest recognition for non-Jews who saved Jews from the Holocaust. He is credited with saving some 250 Jewish workers by declaring them to be essential workers at the oil facility.
Период созданияWorld War II (1939-1945)
Наименованиеbadges
Материалfibres (fabrics)
Размерность
- width: 86.00 mm
height: 86.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr. Adam Szumer
In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) for supporting this archival project.