This Star of David badge belonged to a female Jewish prisoner of Zwodau, a subcamp of Flossenbürg located in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia (today in the Czech Republic). She gave the badge to John Hein, a US soldier who helped liberate Zwodau on May 7, 1945. Hein was a German-born Jewish soldier who served as an interpreter in the 1st Infantry Division.
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