The yellow badge, also known as yellow patch, Jewish badge or yellow star, was a badge that Jews were ordered to wear by some caliphates during the Middle Ages, some European powers during the Medieval and early modern periods, and Nazi officials in World War II. The badges marked the wearer as a religious or ethnic outsider, often as a badge of shame.
Yellow star labeled Juif, the French term for Jew, that was worn during the Nazi occupation of France.
A 16th century depiction of a Jewish couple from Worms, Germany, wearing the obligatory yellow badge; the man holds a moneybag and bulbs of garlic (often used in artistic portrayals of Jews in medieval Europe).
A Jewish boy in Radom with a Star of David armband
16th-century watercolour of a Jew from Worms, Germany. The rota or Jewish ring on the cloak, moneybag, and garlic bulb are symbols of antisemitic ethnic stereotypes
A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, a mark of shame or a stigma, is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution.
A medieval "Mask of Shame", or scold's bridle
Prisoners in Utah c. 1885 wearing striped prison uniforms considered a badge of shame
Inmate in orange and white striped jumpsuit
The yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany as a badge of shame
