Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
- Date
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issue:
1940 May 15
- Geography
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issue:
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland);
Łódź (Poland)
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Leah Rosenfield
5 (funf) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
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The collection conisists of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.
Date: 1940-1943
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note
Object
Scrip with a receipt value of 50 cents issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their invasion and occupation of Poland in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto, and includes traditional Jewish symbols.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
Object
5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
