Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Sign posted by the Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź Ghetto Jewish Council in German occupied Poland. This agency was a German institution established to facilitate the mass deportations to Chelmno killing center in 1942. The deportees were encouraged to exchange their valuable possessions for ghetto scrip. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich.
- Date
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use:
approximately 1944
- Geography
-
use:
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland);
Łódź (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hal and Robyn Klein
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Signs and signboards
- Object Type
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Shop signs (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- White enameled metal sign with black German text.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, enamel paint
- Inscription
- front, black paint : Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle [The Elders of the Jews in Litzmannstad /Main Purchasing Agency]
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Lodz Ghetto sign was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Hal and Robyn Klein.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 20:13:40
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Also in Hal and Robyn Klein collection
This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"
Sign posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto
Object
Sign posted by the Statistical Department of the Łódź Ghetto Jewish Council.
