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Poland, 20 zloty note

Object | Accession Number: 1996.43.1.2
1996.23.1.2 front Poland, 20 zloty note Click to enlarge 1996.43.1.2 back Poland, 20 zloty note Click to enlarge

A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland, who perished during the Holocaust.

Date
postmark:  1939
Language
Polish
Classification
Exchange Media
Category
Money
Object Type
National bank notes (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shula Hamilton

About This Object

Physical Description
paper bank note, 20 Zloties; blue, red, brown, yellow ink on white paper; recto: bears image of male bust in upper right corner, "BANK POLSKI/DWADZIESCIA/ZLOTYCH/WARSZAWA 20 CZERWCA 1931r./PREZES BANKU/NACZELNY DYREKTOR/SKARBNIK/CM. 6022229/ZL20ZL"; verso: bears image of young woman holding sheaves of wheat, flanked by two children, and text, "20 BANK POLSKI 20/DWADZIESCIA ZLOTYCH"
Dimensions
overall: Height: 3.620 inches (9.195 cm) | Width: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Depth: 15.980 inches (40.589 cm)
Materials
overall : paper, ink, plastic

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Shula Hamilton.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2021-02-10 09:05:28
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Poland, 20 zloty note

Poland, 20 zloty note

Object

A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland who perished in the Holocaust.

Mrs. Shula Hamilton papers

Document

Contains a photograph as well as a letter and envelope (both laminated), addressed from Enrique (Herszek) Kagan, a Jewish refugee in Argentina, to his mother, Feiga Kagan, in Ostrolenka, Poland, sent August 29, 1939, but returned to Mr. Kagan in Argentina. The envelope contains a postmark from the German "Devisenschutz Kommando" in Warsaw.

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