Overview
- Brief Narrative
- A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland who perished in the Holocaust.
- Date
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1931
postmark: 1939
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shula Hamilton
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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National bank notes (lcsh)
- 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/AL. 1456961/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: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 6.620 inches (16.815 cm) | Depth: 15.980 inches (40.589 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Shula Hamilton.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-12 15:57:19
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11647
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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. Also contains two examples of Polish currency from 1931. Written by Herszek Kagan (donor's father) to his mother in occupied Poland, August 1939.
Poland, 20 zloty note
Object
A twenty zloty note mailed by a Jewish immigrant in Argentina to his mother in Poland, who perished during 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.
