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Judenbank - Austria, 1 krone note, overprinted with anti-Jewish slogan

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.835

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    Judenbank - Austria, 1 krone note, overprinted with anti-Jewish slogan
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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Austrian 1 krone note with an antisemitic slogan on the back blaming the Jews for the international financial crisis of the 1920s. It accuses the Jews of taking the gold and leaving dreck. The bank note, printed on one side to save money, was issued as emergency currency in 1922, during a period of hyperinflation in the newly independent republic of Austria. The Social Democrats penalized rural regions with low tariffs and overtaxed city residents. The bloated government bureaucracy met the financial crisis by printing more and more money, catastrophically depreciating the currency. The value of 1 krone [crown] in January 1919 was 16 to a dollar; in May 1923, it was over 70,000 per dollar. This Judenbank note is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Date
    issue:  1922 January 02
    Geography
    issue: Vienna (Austria)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    face, red ink : 1 / die Oesterreichische-ungarische Bank, österreichische Geschästsfuhrüng, zahit gegen diese Banknote bei / ihre hauptanstust in Wien sosort auf Berlangen / EINE KRONE / In geseklichem Metallgelde Wien, 2. Jänner 1922. / Oesterreichische-ungarische Bank / Spitzwüller / ?any / Raune / DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNO- / TEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT. / 1 [ 1 / Austrian Reich-hungarian Bank, will immediately issue 1 crown against these banknotes at its main office in Vienna, on Berlangen, in metal, Vienna, January 2, 1922. Austrian Reich-hungarian bank will make good upon presentation of these banknotes. / 1]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Issuer: Oesterreichische-ungarische Bank
    Biography
    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Exchange Media
    Category
    Money
    Physical Description
    Austrian bank note on nearly square white paper with red and light blue ink. The face has a jagged, vertical rectangle with the denomination 1 with a checked pattern on the left and right, connected by checked patterned links. In the center is German text, an the denomination EINE KRONE. On the bottom left and right are swirl patterned squares enclosing swirl patterned 8 point stars, connected by a jagged, geometric patterned rectangle. It appears unused.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
    Inscription
    back, overprint, black and red ink : Das Gold, das hat die / Judenbank / Der Dreck, der blieb in deiner Hand! [The Jew's Bank has the gold, The Shit remains in your hand!]

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    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Judenbank note was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2024-10-03 11:11:57
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