Malwina (Inka) Gerson Allen collection

Identifier: irn524003
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 2007 by Malwina (Inka) Gerson Allen.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of Łódź ghetto scrip, brooches, posters, documents, newspapers, and photographs relating to the experiences of Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Gustav and Dora, in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, during and after the Holocaust.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 103

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44026
- English
- 1944
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
10 (zehn) mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants o...
Brooch with a cut-out design of the fence and Jewish quarters sign made in Łódź Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518795
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Elaborate cutout metal brooch with Łódź Ghetto bridge that was made in the Ghetto and recovered there by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, Inka, 11, and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and deported the remaining residents to concentration camps or killing centers. Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials and to dig mass g...
Brass bracelet with cutout designs of scenes of daily life made in Łódź Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518796
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Brass bracelet made in Łódź Ghetto with seven links featuring 5 cut-out designs of cityscapes and daily life in the ghetto. It was recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family were part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mas...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518797
- English
- 1943
- overall: | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
10 mark coin minted in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. This specimen is from the second of two issues of coins. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518799
- English
- overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518800
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518801
- English
- overall: Height: 3.370 inches (8.56 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518803
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518804
- English
- overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518805
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518806
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David issued in Łódź Ghetto and recovered there by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent depo...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with a blank center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518807
- English
- overall: Height: 3.630 inches (9.22 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Unused yellow cloth Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518808
- English
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 4.130 inches (10.49 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David found in Łódź Ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, Inka, 11, and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the subsequent deportations to concentration ca...
Yellow cloth Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518809
- English
- overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Unused yellow cloth Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518810
- English
- overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 4.380 inches (11.125 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Star of David worn in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the age of 10 had to work and Inka worked in a hat-making workshop. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in July 1944 and Inka's family was part of the work detail kept to clean up and salvage materials from the ghetto and to dig mass graves. The Allen family avoided the sub...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518811
- English
- overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
50 pfennig paper currency receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabit...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518812
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
1 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the ...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518813
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
1 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the ...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518814
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
1 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the ...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518815
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
1 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto and recovered from the ghetto by Malwina (Inka) Gerson and her parents, Dora and Gustav. 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. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 11 year old Inka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans. All ghetto inhabitants over the ...

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