Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Fifty-pfennig (50) scrip note from Łódź Ghetto
- Date
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1940 May 15
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor
- Signature
- preprinted signature of Chaim Rumkowski, Eldest of the Jews
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Physical Description
- Serial No. 444338; purple ink on white paper
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
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 an anonymous donor.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:23:24
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11832
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Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
Object
5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
