Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack and Marilyn Pechter
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Coupons
- Object Type
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Ration cards (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular paper canteen note: 5 shillings, orange background with blue and black ink, serial number: C 008854
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
- Inscription
- front, top, center: AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
front, center, left: GOOD / for purchase in the canteens in Cyprus or for exchange for cash in Jerusalem
front, bottom, left: C 008854
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The canteen coupon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Jack and Marilyn Pechter.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:30:15
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn533443
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Also in Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection
The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: approximately 1780-approximately 1945
ID tag
Object
Propaganda leaflet
Object
Canteen coupon
Object
Canteen coupon
Object
Jack and Marilyn Pechter papers
Document
Collection of documents, propaganda, correspondence, photographs, clippings, newspaper, map, and photographic postcards. The collection, which is primarily composed of philatelic materials, also documents pre-war Jewish life, antisemitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and WWII; dated circa 1780-1945.
Jack Pechter papers
Document
Contains a photographic print, black-and-white, of Jack Pechter standing outside next to his sister Dora in Linz, Austria; dated "1949" on verso.
