Łódź ghetto scrip, 10 mark note, given to a survivor searching for relatives

Identifier
irn517640
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.450.4
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm)

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Jack Goldman was in the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos in Poland during the Holocaust. In 1945, he traveled to Łódź, looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. He later settled in the United States.

Archival History

The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Jack Goldman.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Goldman

Scope and Content

Scrip with a receipt value of 10 marks issued beginning May 15, 1940, in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated by the Germans in August 1944.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Rectangular paper scrip. Front has large German text in black at center, with smaller German text in black at upper and lower left, and lower right corner. Numerical denomination 10 in lower left corner and upper right corner. Serial number in upper left corner. Background is green, with a lattice of 6-pointed stars, or Magen David. Back has same green lattice background. There is a 7-branched candelabrum, or menorah, is in lower left corner; a 6-pointed star in upper right. Numerical denomination 10 in lower right. German text in upper left corner and along bottom.

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Genre

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