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Certificate of compulsory contribution

Object | Accession Number: 2014.167.1
2014.167.1 front Certificate of compulsory contribution Click to enlarge

Certificate of compulsory contribution for the sum of 30 zloty by the German authorities in Warsaw; a sum of 100 million zloty was a penalty levied on the Polish population of the city of Warsaw and the vicinity for an attack by the underground on the German occupier; this certificate is a blank; in Polish; dated February 1944.

Date
issue:  1944 February
Geography
issue: Warsaw (Poland)
Language
Polish
Classification
Information Forms
Category
Permits
Object Type
Certificates (aat)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Adelman

About This Object

Physical Description
30 zloty certificate, number 662892
Dimensions
overall: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 5.687 inches (14.445 cm)
Materials
overall : paper

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The certificate was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection in 2014 by Peter Adelman.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2022-03-28 09:41:07
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