https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/prisoner-groups-in-the-concentration-camp-how-the-nazis-stigmatized-their-victims/
A display board for the triangles assigned in the concentration camps. Along with his or her inmate number, every concentration camp inmate had to sew a triangle of a certain color onto his/her jacket and trousers. The National Socialists used display boards to indicate which triangle should mark which group of prisoners.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/classification-system-in-nazi-concentration-camps
Identifying Prisoners: The Marking System. From 1938, Jews in the camps were identified by a yellow star sewn onto their prison uniforms, a perversion of the Jewish Star of David symbol. After 1939 and with some variation from camp to camp, the categories of prisoners were easily identified by a marking system combining a colored inverted

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/ss-concentration-camp-system/uniform-and-clothing/
In most camps, prisoners were stripped of their own civilian clothing and forced to wear a uniform. Typically, this uniform was patterned with blue stripes, although this wasn't always the case. Men were given a cap, trousers and jacket to wear. Women wore a dress or skirt with a jacket and kerchief for their head.

https://auschwitzacademicguide.arts.ubc.ca/clothing-in-auschwitz/
Clothing in Auschwitz. by Macy Richards (Witnessing Auschwitz 2021) This presentation covers the types of uniforms and clothing worn by prisoners in Auschwitz, including the physical and social roles of clothing within the camp. Here, the many factors that caused clothing and uniform types to differ amongst prisoners are explained.

https://www.vholocaustmuseum.com/uniforms-and-shoes
Uniforms and Shoes. Upon arrival at the concentration camps, Jews and other prisoners usually had their clothing taken away. Confiscated clothing and personal items were sold, or shipped back for use by German civilians. When surrendering their clothes, prisoners further lost their connection to their previous lives as free citizens.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/gallery/classification-system-in-nazi-concentration-camps-photographs
Photograph of Julian Noga, a Polish prisoner (marked with an identifying patch bearing a "P" for Pole) imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Germany, between August 1942 and April 1945. The SS created a system of marking prisoners in concentration camps. Color-coded badges were sewn onto uniforms and identified the reason for a

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/341/
A uniform of any kind, whether worn by a fireman, a nurse or a soldier, is designed to inform us about the person who wears it; and the same thing holds true for a prisoner uniform. In this presentation I am examining textiles from recent history: the prisoner uniforms from Nazi concentration camps; I attempt to "read" the information they contain.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315851846-12/concentration-camp-uniform-tool-subjugation-symbol-holocaust-james-taylor
The striped concentration camp uniform has become one of the most powerful symbols of the Holocaust - the term used specifically to mean the Nazi persecution and murder of Europe's Jews from 1933 to 1945 (Figure 11.1). In truth, these uniforms were worn by a wide variety of the prisoner groups held in the concentration camps on grounds of

https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/artifacts-unpacked/the-uniform-and-the-jacket
Artifacts Unpacked Video Series. Otto Feuer was convinced he would not survive the Holocaust. He was imprisoned for nearly six years in three concentration camps in Nazi Germany. The striped uniform he wore and the jacket that was marked as prisoner clothing help tell his story of being persecuted for being Jewish. The garments also speak to

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/table-of-colored-classification-symbols-for-prisoners-in-concentration-camps-1939-1942
In 1935-36, individual commanders of various concentration camps began forcing newly admitted groups of prisoners to wear badges indicating the alleged grounds for their incarceration. Starting in the winter of 1937-38, these classification symbols were standardized for all camps.

https://chapman.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/5/resources/774
From 1938, Jews in the concentration camps were identified by a yellow star sewn onto their prison uniforms. After 1939 and with some variation from camp to camp, the categories of prisoners were easily identified by a marking system combining a colored inverted triangle with lettering.

https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/camp-prisoner-uniform-jacket-worn-by-william-luksenburg/collection/experiences-of-forced-labor-in-wartime-europe
During World War II, most prisoners in German concentration camps were issued uniforms for a variety of reasons. 1 Because prisoners stood out in the uniforms, escape became more difficult. The clothing also demoralized them, making innocent people appear to be convicts. When William (Welek) Luksenburg was given a prisoner number in the Gleiwitz labor camp in 1943, he thought to himself that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel
Uniform design and function 2nd pattern SS Totenkopf, 1934-45. While different uniforms existed for the SS over time, the all-black SS uniform adopted in 1932 is the most well known. The black-white-red colour scheme was characteristic of the German Empire, and it was later adopted by the Nazi Party.Further, black was popular with fascist movements: a black uniform was introduced by the

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1340&context=tsaconf
adaptation to these conditions. Even the damage on the uniforms is telling; wear patterns and different stains suggest the prisoner's work assignment. As the textile conservator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, I have worked on approximately 250 prisoner uniforms from Nazi concentration camps. What may seem like a

https://www.academia.edu/1958412/Typology_and_Symbolism_in_Prisoners_Concentration_Camp_Clothing_during_World_War_II
Clothing in the concentration camps during World War II served to cover the human body, but above all to identify individuals as prisoners. Research has shown that prisoners in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps did not always wear striped uniforms; a wide range of other garments, including civilian clothing marked in specific ways, was used to identify inmates as well.

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/case-study-ravensbruck/conditions-inside/
Ravensbrück was a concentration camp built by the Nazis to imprison and exploit female prisoners in the Third Reich, often through forced labour. The construction of Ravensbrück began in November 1938. The camp was located on the edge of a small village, approximately fifty miles outside of Berlin in north-east Germany, and surrounded by a forest and a lake.

https://www.academia.edu/7194240/Narratives_of_Clothing_Concentration_Camp_Dress_as_a_Companion_to_Survival
Clothing in the concentration camps during World War II served to cover the human body, but above all to identify individuals as prisoners. Research has shown that prisoners in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps did not always wear striped uniforms; a wide range of other garments, including civilian clothing marked in specific ways, was used to identify inmates as well.

https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/prisoner-clothing-buchenwald.html
Kalman was liberated at Buchenwald in April 1945. On liberation, he took a prisoner shirt and trousers from the camp storeroom. After liberation Kalman was in the Neu Freimann and Foernwald DP camps near Munich, where he met and married Miriam née Goldstein, also a Holocaust survivor. Of the whole Freireich family - parents and seven children

https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/collections/history/history-department-collection/concentration-camp-uniform
Concentration camp uniform. Image copyright of WA Museum. Worn by Stefan Gebski, a Polish political prisoner, who was imprisoned in a number of concentration camps by the Nazis during the Second World War. Millions of Jews, together with other categories of prisoner, were murdered during the Holocaust. Two out of three European Jews died, and

https://museum.yivo.org/artifact/concentration-camp-uniforms/
The first image is a female concentration camp uniform. The second image is a shirt or jacket of a concentration camp uniform. The third image is a hat of a concentration camp uniform. This hat differs from the others because of the red triangle. The red triangle was used to identity political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge
Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the German-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there. [1] The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and trousers of the prisoners.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wZ1EhxUouYA
This is Part 5 of our educational series on concentration camps. In Part 6, we ask young Germans what it's like visiting a former concentration camp for the

https://auschwitz.net/coleccion/prisoner-uniforms/
By 1937, Nazi regime's prisoner uniforms made of coarse grey-blue striped material and clogs had become standard issue in the concentration camp system.. The exhibition is home to several uniforms that were used by inmates in Auschwitz and other concentration and death camps. Each of these striped uniforms was marked with a badge indicating the prisoner's category and an identification