Unused Star of David badge printed with Juif given to a Jewish chaplain, US Army

Unused Star of David badge given to Rabbi Judah Nadich by a group of partisan Jewish leaders in Paris, France, in August or September 1944. The badge would be cut out and sewn to outerwear to identify Jews in German occupied France. Nadich was a Jewish chaplain in the US Army from 1942-1946. He arrived in Paris just after its liberation on August 24, 1944. In August 1945, Lt. Colonel Nadich, Senior Jewish Chaplain, European Theater, was stationed at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, as the first Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Eisenhower. He was assigned to investigate the conditions of Jewish refugees at displaced persons camps in the American occupation zone in Germany. Nadich found the conditions horrifying with severe overcrowding, insufficient food, and barbed wire enclosed camps that residents were not permitted to leave. In addition to improvements in living conditions, Nadich also convinced Eisenhower to reconsider the Allied policy of sending refugees back to their native countries, explaining how unthinkable that was for survivors whose entire families had been murdered in those homelands.