Created by Andrew

I started to make this pennant on Holocaust memorial day January 27th, 2025, which commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia, with the theme “For a Better Future”.  The pennant displays some of the badges that were used to identify the categories of prisoners sent to concentration camps. Central to this pennant’s design is the pink triangle  used to designate homosexual men and transgender women. This was later used in the 1970s and 80s as a symbol for the gay rights movement in the UK and many other countries. Other concentration camp badges included here are the yellow star for Jews, the blue triangle for emigrants and stateless people, black for social outcasts such as the mentally ill, disabled people, sex workers and lesbians, green for criminals, red for political prisoners and purple for Jehovah’s witnesses and other pacifist religious groups.  The blue stripes reference the clothing that all concentration camp prisoners were forced to wear. I wanted to include all the people who were persecuted in the holocaust and remind us to remember where the hatred of those who are considered different can lead.