Jacqueline Pollen collection

Identifier: irn50373
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Jacqueline Pollen.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip and a Westerbork transit camp voucher.

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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8837
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8838
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Jacqueline Pollen. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, whe...

Jacqueline Pollen collection

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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note