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Mauthausen labor camp scrip, 50 pfennig reichmark note

Object | Accession Number: 2000.287.1
2000.287.1 back Mauthausen labor camp scrip, 50 pfennig reichmark note Click to enlarge 2000.287.1 front Mauthausen labor camp scrip, 50 pfennig reichmark note Click to enlarge
Language
German
Classification
Exchange Media
Category
Money
Object Type
Scrip (aat)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Schneider
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About This Object

Physical Description
Fifty Pfennig Reichmark, black printing on recto reading, "Praemienscein ueber RM. --.50 / Konzentrationslager Mauthausen" along upper edge. Below the writing is a black circle with "D St." printed inside of it. The lower left corner, in small print, reads "KL/100-8.44/500.000". Verso is blank.
Materials
overall : paper, ink

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by David Schneider.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2018-01-11 14:23:52
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The collection consists of scrip, an identification tag. and three identification cards.

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Document

Consists of documents including a sample of Mauthausen scrip; an identity card for the Selfaid of the Jewish Former Concentration Camp Inmates of Upper Austria, including a photograph; and two Ausweises (identification cards), one bearing a red ink stamp reading "Liberated Camp of Ebensee," the other bearing stamps along with handwritten and typewritten information about the bearer.

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