During the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the year in Judaism, during which Jews atone for their sins and ask forgiveness from those they’ve hurt in the past year — it was Chicago television station WGN that was seeking forgiveness from the Jewish community.
During its News at Nine broadcast Tuesday night, Tribune Media’s flagship station aired a piece about the high holiday with a graphic displaying the Jewish Star of David. However, the image that appeared over the shoulder of substitute news anchor Tom Negovan was of the yellow Star of David with the word “Jude” (German for “Jew”) that the Nazis forced Jews to stitch onto their clothing.
All Jews over the age of six were required to stich the symbol on their clothes beginning in September 1941, and those who were imprisoned in Nazi death camps had the symbol stitched onto their prison uniforms, which consisted of blue and white vertical stripes, as depicted on the WGN graphic.
