About 7 years ago I went to
Poland on an emissary from my country (
Israel) to see concentration and
destruction camps there. Now, I knew all about the different triangles (pink for gay, black for antisocials, green for criminals, yellow stars of David for jews, red for political prisoners -mostly socialists- and other colours for
gypsies and other undesirables), but until I got to Auschwitz I didn't know that they had combinations! for example a socialist jew would get the "honour" of wearing a
Star of David made up from a yellow
and red triangles!
I stood there, thinking to myself: "hmmm... I'm a socialist gay jew, what kind of construction they would have had to make for me?!"