Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
- Date
-
1943
(issue)
- Geography
-
manufacture :
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Lodz ghetto) (historic);
Lodz (Poland)
- Language
-
German
- Classification
-
Exchange Media
- Category
-
Money
- Object Type
-
Scrip (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ewa Frenkel
5 mark coin issued in the Lodz ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Lodz 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.
-
Record last modified: 2018-01-11 14:25:16
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514839
Also in Ewa Frenkel collection
The collection consists of a photograph of Herman Frenkel wearing a Polish Army uniform, two pieces of scrip from the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, and a coin from the ghetto in Stryj (Stryi), Ukraine.
Date: 1940-1945
Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
Object
1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Lodz ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Lodz 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.
Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
Object
1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Lodz ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Lodz 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.
Photograph of Herman Frenkel
Document
The photograph depicts Herman Frenkel donor's husband wearing a Polish Army uniform with battle decorations affixed.
