Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin
- Date
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issue:
1943
- Geography
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manufacture:
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland);
Łódź (Poland)
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jan Kostański
20 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.
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Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:25:09
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Also in Jan Kostański collection
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Document
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