Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note

Object | Accession Number: 2001.52.6

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Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note

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Date: 1940 May 15
Classification: Exchange Media
Category: Money
Object Type: Scrip (aat)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Dominican Fathers

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Physical Description: rectangular form; olive and cream geometrical background; on recto, "No 238355" [in red] at upper left corner, "20" at upper right and lower left corners, and "Zwanzig Mark" at center; on verso, "Quittung über/Zwanzig Mark" at upper left corner and menorah at lower left corner
Dimensions: overall: Height: 3.100 inches (7.874 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Leo Pelkington.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; 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 was 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.