Marvin Benn papers

Document | Accession Number: 2005.353.1

The papers consist of identification cards that belonged to Jewish families in Poland during the Holocaust.

Date: 1920-1942
Language: Polish
German
Genre/Form: Identification cards.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marvin Benn

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Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
Personal Name: Knobler, Fajwel.
Knobler, Lajb.
Knobler, Chaim.
Szmulewicz, Szmul.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Marvin Benn acquired the collection of documents during a visit to Warsaw, Poland, in 1980. Jan Rochwerger, a Jewish resident of Warsaw, gave him the doucuments from a water-damaged box full of other papers belonging to the exterminated Jewish community of Poland. The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Marvin Benn.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-05-25 15:07:47
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The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish life in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

Object

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.