Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Steven C. Berger
- Markings
- face, upper right corner, inside purple square : 50
face, center, black ink: QUITTUNG / ÜBER / 50 PFENNIG / DER AELTESTE DER JUDEN / IN LITZMANNSTADT / M. Rumkowski / LITZMANNSTADT , DEN 15 MAI 1940 [Receipt / for / 50 cents / The Eldest of the Jews / in Litzmannstadt / M. Rumkowski / Litzmannstadt the 15 May 1940]
face, lower left corner, inside purple square : 50
back, upper left corner, outlined in black ink : 50
back, top center, black ink: QUITTUNG ÜBER / FÜNFZIG PFENNIG [Receipt for / 50 cents]
back, upper right corner, outlined in black ink : 50
back, serial number, lower center, orange ink : Nº 986245
back, lower center, black ink : WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT / ODER NACHMACHT ODER GEFÄLSCHTE / QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT / WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT [ANYONE WHO FALSIFIES OR COPIES THIS RECEIPT, OR TRAFFICS IN COUNTERFEIT RECEIPTS, WILL BE STRICTLY PUNISHED]
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Physical Description
- Offwhite paper scrip with the denomination 50 in the lower left and upper right corners and a 6 point Star of David in the upper left and lower right corner on a purple square within a rectangle of purple interlocking Stars of David, resembling a barbed wire fence, with a 7 branch menorah in the center. There is a light green latticework background. The text denomination 5 PFENNIG is in the center with German text above and below in black ink. The back has a pattern of purple interlocking Stars of David in purple ink, with the denomination 50 in the top corners and German text in the top and bottom center. The serial number, 986245, is printed in orange ink at the bottom center.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.188 inches (5.558 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection in 2017 by Steven C. Berger.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-10-20 10:59:12
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn596134
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