Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
- Date
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after 1940
- Geography
-
issue:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Manfred Endzweig
- Markings
- front, upper center, printed in green ink : QUITTUNG ÜBER / ZWANZIG KRONEN [RECEIPT OF / TWENTY CROWNS]
front, lower center, printed in middle text then above in green ink : 20
front, lower center, smaller text than above, printed in green 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 in border, serial number, printed in red ink : 009120
reverse, center, printed in green ink : Quittung / über / ZWANZIG KRONEN [Receipt / of / TWENTY CROWNS]
reverse, lower center, printed in black 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, printed in black ink : Jakob Edelstein
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
- Rectangular paper scrip. The front has a graphic design in black and green ink on a green background. The front depicts Moses holding 2 stone tablets with the 10 Commandments in Hebrew characters in a medallion on the left, with German text on the right. The right side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 20 in the lower corner and a 6-pointed Star of David above. The reverse has a green geometric background design with German text, and a scrollwork line. Below the text is an engraved signature. The denomination 20 is in the upper right corner. The left side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 20 in the lower corner with a 6-pointed Star of David above. The serial number is in the upper left corner.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.630 inches (6.68 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camps--Economic aspects.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Theresienstadt scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Manfred Endzweig, son of Leopold Endzweig.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-24 10:45:40
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