Philip Slier

Philip "Flip" Slier (4 December 1923 – 9 April 1943) was a Dutch typesetter of Jewish origin who lived in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

At the age of 18, he received a letter from the Jewish Council of Amsterdam—under orders from the German occupiers—that he was to report to Camp Molengoot or face arrest.

On 3 March 1943, before he could escape to Switzerland, he was apprehended by the Schutzstaffel (SS) at the Amsterdam Centraal railway station for not wearing a yellow star badge indicating that he was a Jew.

[1] The Germans in occupied Netherlands ordered that all Jews over the age of six had to wear a six pointed yellow star symbol on their outer clothing, for easy identification, to be the size of a saucer.

[2] He was transported to Vught concentration camp, North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands.

Badge that was required by the law to be worn by Jews, with the Dutch word for them, "Jood", in the center
German Schutzstaffel SS prisoner file card 3 March 1943 shows he was arrested for not wearing a yellow star badge on his outer clothing