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image located by Martin Karner
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Vertical Jewish flag, split of a white and blue stripe, with a white Star of David on the blue field
(115x90.5 cm). Presumably, the horizontal version of the flag would have the blue stripe at the top (and
the star accordingly oriented).
This flag was hung by the 29-year-old Berlin textile trader Martin Friedländer on 1 October 1935, the
Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, from the window of his apartment at Linienstrasse 196 – thus setting a
confident example against the racist legislation of the Nuremberg Laws.
With the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws on September 15, 1935, Jews in Germany were relegated to
second-class citizenship. Among other things, they were forbidden from flying the Reich flag, but
"displaying the Jewish colours" was expressly permitted. In protest, Martin Friedländer had
this blue and white flag, the traditional colours of Zionism, with a Star of
David made. A photographer from the Nazi propaganda paper "Der Angriff" (the attack) took a picture
of the house. The accompanying article stated gloatingly: "On today's Jewish holiday, the Jewish national flag
was displayed for the first time on a house in northern Berlin. The colours are blue and white with the
six-pointed star. This finally puts an end to the guesswork about what the Jewish flag actually looks like."
In June 1939, Martin Friedländer emigrated to Australia, taking his flag with him. In his new home, he
changed his surname to Fried-Lander. He married an Australian woman and ran an import company with her
until 1966. In 1980, Martin Fried-Lander donated the flag to the Jewish Department of the Berlin Museum,
the predecessor of today's Jewish Museum Berlin (the present location of the flag).
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Martin Karner, 30 November 2025
![[Ran Gvili flag]](../images/i/il_rangvili.jpg)
image located by William GarrisonMemorial remembrance flag for Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (24), the remaining Israeli hostage body in Gaza.
It was presented during a gathering held by members of Kibbutz Alumim in honor of Gvili,
who was killed on October 7, 2023 in defense of the kibbutz. His murderers, the Hamas [or Islamic Jihad]
terrorists from Gaza, abducted his body to Gaza, where it still remains.
The gathering took place near Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 9, 2026
(Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90). On the flag's left side there is a facial drawing of Ran Gvili.
The Hebrew on the top blue stripe reads "Rani Gvili"; on the bottom stripe "(We are) waiting
for you at home!"
Gvili, a member of the Yasam police counter-terror unit, was on medical leave at the time, awaiting
surgery on his broken shoulder following a motorcycle accident. Nevertheless, when he heard of the attack,
he put on his uniform and headed toward the front line.
(source, source)
William Garrison/Martin Karner, 16 January 2026