Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 5 cents, saved by the camp director
- Date
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after 1945 June-1945 December
(issue)
- Geography
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issue :
Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp);
Deggendorf (Germany)
- Language
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English
- 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 Richard Katz
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 5 cent scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
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Also in Carl Atkin collection
The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, a set of Degendorf dp camp scrip, documents, and photographs related to the work of Carl Atkin, Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf displaced persons camp in the summer and fall of 1945 following World War II.
Date: 1945
Carl Atkin papers
Document
The Carl Atkins papers comprise documents and photographs related to the his work as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration director of the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1946. Materials include an illustrated song book, clippings from the camp’s newspaper, Deggendorf Center Revue, and a memory book created by members of the camp for Carl upon his departure in 1946. Several of Atkin’s identification cards are also included here, as are biographical materials, including a resume and partial memoir. The photographs in this collection include images of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Joseph T. McNarny’s visit sometime around 1945.
Commemorative ribbon received by an UNRRA DP camp director
Object
Pin commerorating David Ben Gurion owned by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf displaced persons camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10 cents, saved by the camp director
Object
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 10 cent scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 25 cents, saved by the camp director
Object
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 25 cents scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 50 cents, saved by the camp director
Object
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 50 cent scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 1 dollar, saved by the camp director
Object
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 1 dollar scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 5 dollars, saved by the camp director
Object
Deggendorf displaced persons camp 5 dollar scrip saved by Carl Atkin, who was Director of the UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered Deggendorf DP camp in the summer and fall of 1945.
Watercolor of the director of an UNRRA displaced persons camp
Object
Watercolor portrait of Carl Atkin drawn by Annemarie Loewe Durra while she was a resident of Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany and Atkin was the camp director. Atkin ran the camp for UNRAA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) in the summer and fall of 1945. Annemarie and her husband Willi were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1943. Annemarie, a professional cartoonist, continued to draw and Willi, former choral director of the Breslau synagogue, directed a choir of inmates. On October 16, 1944, Willi was deported and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Annemarie was liberated on May 9, 1945. On August 9, she was transferred to Deggendorf. Collection 2004.357 has drawings she did in Thersesienstadt. Annemarie emigrated to the United States in 1950.
