Theresienstadt ghetto currency.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 20246

Overview

Caption: Theresienstadt ghetto currency.

These notes were issued by the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) of the Theresienstadt ghetto and bear the signature of the Judenaelteste (chairman of the Council of Elders), Jacob Edelstein. The design was the work of a ghetto inmate, the architect and graphic artist Maximilian Spell (Spiegel), who copied the motif of Moses and the Ten Commandments from the amulet given to him by his mother before he left for Theresienstadt. Spell survived the war and settled in Israel.

[Source: The Jews of Czecholoslovakia, Vol. III, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984]
Date: 1941 - 1945
Locale: Theresienstadt, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Terezin
Czech Republic
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sharon Muller

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Sharon Muller

Keyword: ARTIFACTS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CURRENCY EDELSTEIN, JACOB GHETTO/OCCUPATION JEWISH COUNCILS THERESIENSTADT
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Theresienstadt -- WARTIME -- Currency/Documents