Red triangle patch worn by a Czech political prisoner

Red triangle patch worn by Czech political prisoner Karel Bruml. It was probably assigned to him in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. The letter "T" stands for "Tscheche" ("Czech man" in German).

Bruml was a Czech Jewish man who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in December 1941. From there, he was deported to Auschwitz in October 1942. At Auschwitz, Bruml was registered as a prisoner in the camp and given a prisoner number and uniform. He was transferred within the Auschwitz camp complex to Auschwitz-Monowitz (also called Auschwitz III or Buna). He remained in Auschwitz for more than two years until the camp's evacuation in January 1945. Bruml survived a death march and several other concentration camps.