During the 1930s Jews were ordered to wear the six-pointed Star Of David as an identifier. During this era, leading up to World War II, Jews were forced into ghettoes and increasingly persecuted. Finally this persecution would lead to the death camps of Hitler's Germany. In the Jewish religion, the Star of David has pronounced significance - only 'chosen' people can follow it. Germans marked their prospective victims by ordering them to wear their own mark of being chosen. And of course they could be singled out for persecution more easily when marked as a target. other the Navis would kill them.Read about it in the amazing book Yellow Star
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Nazis made Jews wear the Star of David so they could easily identify if someone was Jewish or not. It was also a way to single out the Jews and make them feel like outsiders.
If a Jew did not wear their star, they would be shot.
They were required to were a yellow star, or the star of david, so they could recognized as a Jew in the community, because Jews were looked down upon by most people in that time.
Germany and all the countries that Germany had occupied.
In most cases Jews had to buy their yellow stars.
yellow starduring the holocaust Jews were forced towear a yellow star of david on their clothes.
the "yellow star" was the star of David - a Jewish symbol and since the Germans wanted to "keep tabs" on all the Jews they where ultimatly trying to kill off they had all the Jews where the "yellow star" or the star of David sewn on their clothing with the word "Jude" inprinted beneath it which was the German word for "Jew". hope that helps you :) It also let the Nazis no who were Jews and who were not so they could stop them from doing different things
The Star of David is no particular color, but rather is a shape. In the flag of the State of Israel, the Star of David is blue on a white background. In some parts of Nazi-controlled Europe before and during World War II, Jews were forced to wear yellow Stars of David on their clothing.