Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marianne Roberts
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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National bank notes (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular piece of paper. Front is printed in black, green, and red ink. There is a black graphic border around all color and text. The field has a watermark on red and green with the red section being towards the center. The front is titled across the top "Reichsbanknote/Tausend Mark." "1000" is printed on the first third of the note with the serial number "038467" above. The reverse is printed with black and green ink. "MARK 1000 MARK" is printed in lack over a green filligree design over a black crosshatch field.
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The bank note was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Marianne Cohn Roberts.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:30:18
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn538190
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Also in Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
The collection consist of a bank note, clippings, photographs, and a speech relating to the experiences of Marianne Cohn Roberts, who left Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Date: 1920-2011
Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
Document
Consists of photographs, clippings, and a speech from the collection of Marianne Cohn Roberts, originally of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. Includes pre-war photographs of family, the family store, summer camp, and other images of pre-war Jewish life in Germany. Also includes a newsclippings and a speech written by Marianne Roberts in 2011 describing her experiences witnessing the rise of antisemitism in Germany, Kristallnacht, confiscation of goods, and of her family's emigration to the United States in 1939. Also includes an identity card portrait of Marianne Cohn Roberts in which she was instructed to expose her ear, as the photographer told her it was a typical "Jewish" ear.
