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).
overall: Height: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm) | Width: 48.000 inches (121.92 cm)
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The flag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Eric Bergtraun.
green with twisted gold cord trim around outside edge; sewn on recto and verso: upper left corner rectangle with red stripe at top and bottom and white stripe in middle, red"rising su" in upper right corner,"13TH UNITED GROUP/SHANGHA" in black letters in upper center, yellow fleur-de-lis in center with yellow"banne" reading"BE PREPARE" in black below, and small navy blue patch with"FOR/SERVICE/DURING/OCCUPATION/1941 194" embroidered in red, white, and blue on side