Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
- Date
-
issue:
1943 January 01
- Geography
-
issue:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tana Gelfer
- Markings
- front, upper center, printed in brown ink : QUITTUNG ÜBER / FÜNF KRONEN [RECEIPT OF / FIVE CROWNS]
front, lower center, printed in middle text then above in brown ink : 5
front, lower center, smaller text than above, printed in brown ink : WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHMACHT / ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT. / WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT [ANYONE WHO FALSIFIES OR DISTORTS OR FAKES THIS RECEIPT, OR COUNTERFEITS RECEIPT, WILL BE STRICTLY PUNISHED]
reverse, upper left in border, plate letter and number, printed in brown ink : A003
reverse, center, printed in brown ink : Quittung / über / FÜNF KRONEN [Receipt / of / FIVE CROWNS]
reverse, lower center, printed in brown ink : THERESIENSTADT, AM 1.JANNER 1943 DER ALTESTE DER JUDEN / IN THERESIENSTADT [THERESIENSTADT, ON 1. JANUARY 1943 THE ELDER OF THE JEWS IN THERESIENSTADT]
reverse, bottom right, printed in brown ink : Jakob Edelstein
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
- Rectangular paper scrip. The front has a graphic design in black and brown ink on a brown background. The front depicts Moses holding 2 stone tablets with the 10 Commandments in Hebrew characters within a medallion on the left, with German text on the right. The right side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 5 in the lower corner and a 6-pointed Star of David above. The reverse has a brown geometric background design with a central orange streak, German text, and a scrollwork line. Below the text is an engraved signature. The denomination 5 is in the upper right corner. The left side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 5 in the lower corner with a 6-pointed Star of David above. The plate letter and number is in the upper left corner.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Theresienstadt scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Tana Gelfer.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:17:40
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