Overview
- Date
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1921
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Greenberg
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Emergency currency (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Emergency money, 1 mark. Man with empty cup begging at door.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 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 money was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Michael Greenberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:18:51
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn934
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The collection consist of 5 pieces of scrip.
Date: 1920-1921
Inflation coupon
Object
Inflation coupon
Object
Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark
Object
.50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Division, part of the Third Army, arrived in camp and discovered more than 21,000 starved and ill inmates.
