Overview
- Brief Narrative
- 1 Reichspfennig German POW camp general issue scrip, found in Paul Sass' wallet.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of David and Harvey Sass
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Physical Description
- 1 Reichspfennig German POW camp general issue scrip. Scrip has red triangle in the center.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.440 inches (3.658 cm) | Width: 2.940 inches (7.468 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 collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by David and Harvey Sass, the sons of Paul and Bernice Sass.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 10:15:51
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn734014
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Also in Sass and Sygal families collection
Consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, German POW camp issue scrip, and wallet/document holder. The collection pertains to the experience of Paul (Pesach) Sass, his wife Bernice (Bronia) Sass (née Sygal) and their families. A number of Sass and Segal family members survived the Holocaust in Poland. They later lived as displaced persons in Cremona, Italy where 3 Sass siblings (Pesach, Schaja, and Nechama) married three Sygal siblings (Bronia, Ruth, and Szamu). The collection also includes a document confirming Pesach Sass's release from Majdanek in February 1942 to return to Skalat. At the time Pesach Sass was among the Polish POWs from the Lipowa 7 labor camp takes with constructing Majdanek.
Date: 1937-1951
Sass and Sygal families papers
Document
Consists of documents, photographs and correspondence. The collection pertains to the experience of Paul (Pesach) Sass, his wife Bernice (Bronia) Sass (née Sygal) and their families. A number of Sass and Segal family members survived the Holocaust in Poland. They later lived as displaced persons in Cremona, Italy where 3 Sass siblings (Pesach, Schaja, and Nechama) married three Sygal siblings (Bronia, Ruth, and Szamu). The collection also includes a document confirming Pesach Sass's release from Majdanek in February 1942 to return to Skalat. At the time Pesach Sass was among the Polish POWs from the Lipowa 7 labor camp tasked with constructing Majdanek.
