Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
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Eric Bergtraun (1925-2008) was born Erich Maximilian Bergtraun in Vienna to Edmund Leon Bergtraun and Lilly Wagner Bergtraun. His family left Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco, and married Polly Bergtraun (nee Hertz).
The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Eric Bergtraun.
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Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai
overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm)
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blue with painted image of fleur-de-lis in maroon;"BOY SCOUT" written in yellow; blue stitching along outside edge