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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

Object | Accession Number: 1992.62.2

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Scrip, valued at 2 [zwei] kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp after 1943. All currency was confiscated upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The camp existed from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945, in a region of Czechoslovakia annexed by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Rose acquired the scrip from her brother-in-law Dr. Henri Brunswic, who lived in Paris, France. In November 1940, a year after the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Raszka (Rose) Galek, her parents Moshe and Fela, and her younger sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Raszka’s parents were shot as she watched and her sisters deported to a concentration camp and presumed killed. Raszka escaped and went into hiding. A resistance member, Jan Majewski, helped her obtain false papers as a Polish Catholic, Maria Kowalczyk. In June, she was sent as a forced laborer to a farm in Krummhardt, Germany. Raszka was liberated by US forces in April 1945. She moved to Stuttgart displaced persons camp and emigrated to the United States in 1947.
    Date
    issue:  after 1943 January 01
    Geography
    issue: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rose Galek Brunswic on behalf of Etienne Brunswic
    Markings
    face, upper center, red/brown ink : QUITTUNG ÜBER / ZWEI KRONE [RECEIPT OF/ TWO CROWN]
    face, lower center, red brown/ ink : 2
    face, lower center, red/brown ink : WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHMACHT / ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT. / WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT [ANYONE WHO FALSIFIES OR DISTORTS OR FAKES THIS RECEIPT, OR COUNTERFEITS RECEIPT, WILL BE STRICTLY PUNISHED]
    reverse, upper left, plate letter and number, red/brown ink : A011
    reverse, center, red/brown ink : Quittung / über / ZWEI KRONE [Receipt / of / TWO CROWN]
    reverse, lower center, red/brown ink : THERESIENSTADT, AM 1.JANNER 1943 DER ALTESTE DER JUDEN / IN THERESIENSTADT [THERESIENSTADT, ON 1. JANUARY 1943 THE ELDER OF THE JEWS IN THERESIENSTADT]
    reverse, bottom right, red/brown ink : Jakob Edelstein

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Exchange Media
    Category
    Money
    Object Type
    Scrip (aat)
    Genre/Form
    Money
    Physical Description
    Rectangular paper Theresienstadt scrip, 2 kronen, printed in red/brown ink. The face has a background of interlocked ovals. On the left is a depiction of a bearded Moses holding 2 tablets with the 10 Commandments in Hebrew within a medallion, with German text to the right. There is a wide, offwhite right margin with the denomination 2 in the bottom corner below a 6-pointed Star of David. The reverse has a background of interlocked diamonds with German text within a large scrollwork line and an engraved signature below. The denomination 2 is in the top right corner. The left side has a wide, offwhite margin with a 2 in the bottom corner below a 6-pointed Star of David. The plate letter and number are in the top left corner. It has a center crease and slight wear.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

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

    Provenance
    The Theresienstadt scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Rose Galek Brunswic.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-06-06 12:37:08
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