Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Mittelbau labor camp token, value 1 mark, 000568, issued to Waclaw Glouszek, while he was a prisoner in Dora-Mittelbau / Nordhausen concentration camp circa January 1945. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Waclaw was arrested in 1942 by the Gestapo in Krakow and held as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to Monowitz (Auschwitz III) concentration camp, where he played in the camp orchestra. In January 1945, Waclaw was transferred to Dora-Mittelbau. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was liberated in April 1945 by British forces.
- Date
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received:
approximately 1945 January
- Geography
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issue:
Dora (concentration camp);
Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Iwona Bonacia
- Markings
- front, green ink : SERIE O / ARBEITSLAGER MITTELBAU / WERTMARKE RM 1.-
back, green ink : Die Deckung für diese Wertmarke ist bei / der Zentralverwaltung der SS-Kantinen im / Standortbereich Mittelbau hinterlegt. Fäl- / schungen werden strafrechtlich geahndet. [The plate for this token is stored in the central building / location / for the administration of SS canteens. Misuse will be prosecuted.]
back, serial number, green ink : ✽ 000568 - Contributor
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Subject:
Waclaw Glouszek
Printer: Buchdruckerei Theodore Mueller
- Biography
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Waclaw Glouszek was born in 1909 in Kowel, Poland (Kovel, Ukraine) to Wilhelm and Katarzyna Glouszek. He was educated in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania). In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In 1942, Waclaw was arrested by the Gestapo in Krakow as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to Monowitz (Auschwitz III) concentration camp, where he played in the camp orchestra. In January 1945, Woclaw was transferred to Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was liberated in April 1945 by British forces. After the war, he settled in Wałbrzych and became a high school director. Waclaw, 97, passed away in 1996.
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)
- Genre/Form
- Money.
- Physical Description
- Square, off-white paper token with green ink. The camp name, series letter, and the encircled denomination RM .1- are printed in rectangular panels on a background of closely spaced vertical lines divided by a horizontal zigzag design. On the back is a block of German text and the serial number. It is discolored and soiled.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 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. Concentration camp inmates as musicians--Biography. Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Biography. Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography. Concentration camps--Paper money--Germany. Forced labor--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Slave labor--Germany. Political prisoners--Poland--Biography. Slave labor--Germany--Biography. World War,1939-1945--Conscript labor--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Dora (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by Iwona Bonacia, the daughter of Waclaw Glouszek.
- 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:
- 2023-10-16 14:02:41
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Also in Wacław Głouszek collection
The collection consists of scrip, correspondences, diaries, copy prints, sheet music, and publications relating to the experiences of Waclaw Glouszek during the Holocaust, when he was interened as a non-Jewish political prisoner in several concentration camps and after the Holocaust when he lived in displaced persons camps.
Date: approximately 1942-1968
Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, -.10 Reichsmark, issued to a Polish political prisoner
Object
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Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, -.05 Reichsmark, issued to a Polish political prisoner
Object
Mittelbau labor camp token, value -.05 mark, 004373, issued to Waclaw Glouszek, while he was a prisoner in Dora-Mittelbau / Nordhausen concentration camp circa January 1945. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Waclaw was arrested in 1942 by the Gestapo in Krakow and held as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to Monowitz (Auschwitz III) concentration camp, where he played in the camp orchestra. In January 1945, Waclaw was transferred to Dora-Mittelbau. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was liberated in April 1945 by British forces.
Wacław Głouszek papers
Document
The Wacław Głouszek papers consist of sheet music from Dora-Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save weak and emaciated Jewish prisoners from selection for the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Głouszek’s identification photograph from Auschwitz, four copy prints of Bergen-Belsen after liberation, and one copy print of General Eisenhower visiting Ohrdruf after liberation.
