Nachman Zonabend collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516270
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 7 months ago

The Nachman Zonabend papers consist of biographical materials, ration tickets, and photographs documenting Zonabend’s family from Łęczyca, Poland, his confinement to the Łódź ghetto and the work he performed there, his marriage to Ita Kuperminc, his liberation, and his work as photographer and collector of historical materials for the Main Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Biographical materials include identification papers, labor cards, and certificates documenting Zonabend’s confinement to the Łódź ghetto, the work he performed there, his marriage to Ita K...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn8398
• English
• overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 9.880 inches (25.095 cm) | Depth: 0.240 inches (0.61 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Bound volume of newspapers published in the Litzmannnstadt Ghetto.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn8399
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn8400
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...