What type of clothes did Jews wear during the Holocaust?

Answer 1

If you are referring to SS concentration-camp guards then, during the war years, they wore feldgrau (grey/green) uniforms that were more-or-less identical to those worn by the German Army, but with SS insignia.

Generally, concentration camps were guarded by SS Totenkopf ('Deaths Head') guard units, generally made up of SS men who were too old, or unfit, for combat duties. They can be identified from regular Waffen-SS (Armed-SS) troops because they wore a deaths' head insignia on their right collar patch, and their waffenfarbe (arm-of-service colour) was brown -this was the coloured underlay to their shoulder straps. In common with all other SS units, an SS-style eagle was worn midway up the left arm of the uniform, and the SS rank was shown on the left-hand collar patch as well as by the style of shoulder strap. As the war progressed, regular SS guards were supplemented with wounded Waffen-SS soldiers and, in some cases, Wehrmacht (Army or Luftwaffe) soldiers. These personnel usually wore a unusual version (double armed) of the swastika on their right collar patch, in place of the deaths' head badge.

Concentration camp guards should not be confused with members of the Waffen-SS 'Totenkopf' Division, who also wore the deaths' head badge on their right collar patch. These were fighting troops and members of what became an elite Panzer Division. However, this Waffen-SS Division was originally formed from the SS-Totenkopfverband which, in the pre-war years, was indeed raised to guard concentration camps. However, at the outbreak of the war, this organisation was expanded and became part of the Waffen-SS.

Prior to the outbreak of the war, the SS-Totenkopfverband members (when on duty) wore a brown working uniform that was identical, in cut, to the famous pre-war SS black uniform, but with the SS eagle, rather than a swastika armband, worn on the left arm.

Answer 2

They Wore regular clothes. Its just that they had the Jewish star badge. They also had other badges they had to wear

• Red triangle-political prisoners: communists, trade unionists, libertarians, social democrats, Freemasons, anarchists.
• Green triangle- "habitual criminals" (convicts, ofttimes Kapos, serving in exchange for reduced sentences or parole).
• Blue triangle-foreign forced laborers, emigrants.
• Pink triangle-sexual offenders, mostly homosexual men but also rapists, zoophiles and paedophiles.[2]
• Purple triangle- Bible Students, a term taken from a name of, and primarily referring to, Jehovah's Witnesses, though a very small number of pacifists and members of other religious organizations were also imprisoned under this classification
• Black triangle-people who were deemed "asocial elements" and "work shy" including
• • Roma (Gypsies), who were later assigned a brown triangle
  • The mentally retarded
  • The mentally ill
  • Alcoholics
  • Vagrants and beggars
  • Pacifists
  • Lesbians
  • Conscription resisters
  • Prostitutes[3][4]
  • Some anarchists
  • Aristocrats
  • Drug addicts
• Brown triangle-Roma (Gypsies) (previously wore the black triangle).[5]
• Uninverted red triangle-an enemy POW, spy or a deserter.

Answer 3

Most gypsies were allowed to wear thier own clothing during the Holocaust. This did not apply when they were imprisoned for another crime.

Collecting all types of gypsy into the same category is problematic because they were not categorised as one by the Germans and different categories were subject to different treatment.

Answer 4

During the Holocaust, women wore smock type dresses. Women wore shoes made similar to clogs. They had no change of clothes, and often slept in there dresses.

Answer 5

Generally nothing to be frank! Maybe some sort of rags, scruffy workmen's trousers and such like. Try Google-ing images or watching Schindler's Liszt.

Answer 6

they wore stripped pajamas and very dull clothes ( like grey stuff).

Answer 7

They dressed in salvakamiys designed by Burhaan!