Scrip

Object | Accession Number: 1999.205.2

1999.205.2 front
Scrip

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Language: German
Classification: Exchange Media
Category: Money
Object Type: Scrip (aat)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erna Ketchie

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Materials: overall : paper, ink
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Erna Ketchie.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Consists of letters exchanged among the Engelbrecht family while Johann (Hans) Engelbrecht, the donor's father, was imprisoned in Buchenwald and subsequently in a Frankfurt prison, while Frida Engelbrecht (donor's mother) was imprisoned in Frankfurt, Germany; photographs; and German-issued prisoner of war camp scrip. Includes the last letter, dated November 1941, that Hans received from Frida, and which he carried in his wallet until he died. Frida Engelbrecht perished in Auschwitz on 21 February 1943.