Benjamin Meed collection

Identifier: irn605620
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 1989 by Benjamin Meed.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of ten pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Benjamin Miedzyrzecki (later Benjamin Meed), when he lived in Łódź, Poland, after leaving liberated Warsaw, where he had been a resistance member in the ghetto and while living in hiding.

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Displaying items 1 to 10 of 10

Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn924
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in De...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn925
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in Decemb...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn926
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in De...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn927
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in De...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn928
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in De...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn929
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in De...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn930
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in Decemb...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn931
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in Decemb...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn932
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who lived in Łódź, Poland, circa February-May 1945, after leaving Warsaw following the liberation of both cities in early 1945. Scrip was issued by the Jewish Council as payment for work or as subsidy in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. Benjamin, his parents Israel and Rivka, and siblings Stela, Mordecai, and Genia lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. Benjamin escaped to eastern Poland, then returned in Decemb...
Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn933
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, who moved to Łódź from Warsaw, both liberated in early 1945, in the final months of the war, circa February-May 1945. The scrip was was issued in the German-controlled ghetto from May 15, 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in spring 1944. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, all currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts.] The Jewish Council also issued it to forced laborers and certain classes of people. It could be spent only inside the ghetto. When Germany invaded Poland on...