Miriam Novitch collection

Identifier: irn50028
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn50028

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1986 by Miriam Novitch.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two scrip of the type issued in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto and a damaged prayer book relating to the experiences of Miriam Novitch after the Holocaust in Europe.

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Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, found postwar
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn22
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Scrip, valued at 1 mark, distributed in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto, and found at the site of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia by Miriam Novitch after the war. The scrip was issued in the German-controlled Łódź ghetto from June of 1940 to its liquidation in the fall of 1944. The scrip was issued in denominations of: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mark notes; 5, 10, and 20 mark coins; and 50 pfennig notes and 10 pfennig coins. Miriam Novitch was living in France, working in a factory and giving Russian and German language lessons when Germany invaded the country in May, 1941. Du...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn23
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Scrip, valued at 2 marks, distributed in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto, and found at the site of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia by Miriam Novitch after the war. The scrip was issued in the German-controlled Łódź ghetto from June of 1940 to its liquidation in the fall of 1944. The scrip was issued in denominations of: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mark notes; 5, 10, and 20 mark coins; and 50 pfennig notes and 10 pfennig coins. Miriam Novitch was living in France, working in a factory and giving Russian and German language lessons when Germany invaded the country in May, 1941. D...
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn24
- English
- Updated 9 months ago
Pages from a damaged Machzor, a Hebrew prayer book for the High Holidays, found by Miriam Novitch at Auschwitz concentration camp sometime after the war ended in May 1945. The prayer book was presumably owned by a Jewish man deported from Germany to Auschwitz in 1943. Miriam, a member of the Communist resistance, was interned in German occupied France from June 1943 until liberation in fall 1944. After the war and for the rest of her life, she dedicated herself to the research and preservation of Holocaust related materials.

Miriam Novitch collection

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Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, found postwar

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar

Prayer book