Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
Archival History
The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Leon Wells.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Leon Weliczer Wells
Scope and Content
5 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto in Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the German authorities following their occuaption of the city in 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Offwhite rectangular paper scrip. The face has a watermark with a latticework pattern in green ink. The serial number in orange ink is in the upper left corner. The denomination 5 is in the lower left corner in bold font and in the upper right in a black square. There is a 1.75 inch left margin, then a rectangle with a curved upper left corner with a background of interlocked Jewish stars with a large Jewish star in a circle in the upper left corner in brown ink. Across the center is the textual denomination in black ink with brown highlights and German text. The back has a blank 1.75 inch margin, then a rectangle with a pattern of interlocked Stars of David in brown ink. There is German text in the upper left corner and a 7-branched candelabrum in the lower left corner. The denomination 5 in bold font, black and brown ink, is outside the border at the lower left corner; above this, near the upper right corner, is a Star of David outline in a black square.
face, upper left corner, stamped, red ink : No 739627
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severocesky kraj)
- Concentration camps--Economic aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severocesky kraj)
- Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severocesky kraj)
Genre
- Object
- Exchange Media