{"id":2194,"date":"2018-11-30T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:17:24","slug":"object-of-the-month-nazi-era-star-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2018\/11\/object-of-the-month-nazi-era-star-of-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Month &#8211; Nazi Era Star of David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2201\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nazi Era Star of David Patch 4\u201d x 4\u201d 2018.05.0001 Gift in Honor of the Jeifa Family\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Final-Obverse-2-1200x1194.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Obverse-with-Text.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2195\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/files\/2018\/11\/2018.05.0001_Obverse-with-Text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During World War II, German forces occupied parts of France from 1940 until 1944. Starting in June 1942, it was required that people of Jewish descent wear the six-pointed Star of David &#8211; a common symbol of Judaism\u2014to signify their heritage. \u201cJuif,\u201d the French word for &#8220;Jew,\u201d is written in Hebraic-style lettering. This star belonged to Michel Jeifa of Paris who was sent to southern France and hidden by a Christian family in 1942 at age 16. He and his sister survived the Holocaust, while their parents lost their lives at Auschwitz concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p>This patch is part of the Jeifa Family Collection and was donated in honor of the Jeifa Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, German forces occupied parts of France from 1940 until 1944. Starting in June 1942, it was required that people of Jewish descent wear the six-pointed Star of David &#8211; a common symbol of Judaism\u2014to signify their heritage. \u201cJuif,\u201d the French word for &#8220;Jew,\u201d is written in Hebraic-style lettering. This star belonged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2018\/11\/object-of-the-month-nazi-era-star-of-david\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Object of the Month &#8211; Nazi Era Star of David&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}