Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522500
• English
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula insi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522501
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, obtained by 17 year old Ursula Lenneberg in 1943 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Ursula considered this fake money produced to fool the Red Cross that camp conditions were decent and healthy. Ursula received a deportation notice in July 1942 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she lived with her family. They insisted on going with her to the camp. Her father Otto and brother Walter, 12, were allowed, but her mother, Lina, born a Christian, was not. In Theresienstadt in summer 1944, Otto received a deportation notice and Ursula ins...