Fragments of an armbands with a Star of David

German authorities ordered, that all Jews over the age of twelve wear the yellow armband. We didn’t have a yellow armband. Our armbands were white with the blue Star of David. (...) Getting the band was such a proud moment for Shulim, to him it meant he was now a man, that he was growing up to be like his father. (...) I asked my uncle to take a picture of him putting on the armband. (...) He had it on the right arm and he pulls out the arm to show it on the photo; he was so proud of it. Shulim was deported with his mother, brother, and sister to Bełżec death camp where he was killed in July 1942.

Excerpt from a memoir by Naftali Saleschütz, a survivor from Kolbuszowa.