Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Scrip, fifty pfennig note, used in Łódź [Litsmannstadt] Ghetto during the Holocaust
- Date
-
issue:
1940 May 15
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carolyn C. Landau
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
- recto: facsimile signature of "Chaim Rumkowski lower center; pre-printed "Quittung/ueber/50 Pfennig/Der Aelteste der Juden/in Litsmannstadt/Litzmannstadt den 15 Mai 1940" across face, over image of candelabra; star of David in each corner; verso: pre-printed number "50" in upper corners; "Quittung ueber/Fusenfzig Pfennig/No. 074523.".."
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 3.370 inches (8.56 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 scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Carolyn Landau.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:15:22
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The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
Object
5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland, Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. 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.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
Object
10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. After Nazi Germany occupied Poland, Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. 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.
Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note
Object
Scrip, two mark note, used in Ghetto Łódź [Litzmannstadt] during the Holocaust
Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
Object
Scrip, five mark note, used in Ghetto Łódź [Litzmannstadt] during the Holocaust
