Ariel S. Cardoso collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4830
• English
• overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

10 (zehn) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; 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 was 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 kil...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4831
• English
• overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Given to Ariel Cardoso, Italy.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn608010
• English
• 1944-1957
• folders 4
• Updated 7 months ago

The Ariel S. Cardoso papers include identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s postwar emigration to Palestine and his military service in the Jewish Brigade. Identification papers include a displaced persons identification certificate, an Israel Labor Federation membership booklet, an Israeli identification card and passport, a driver’s license, a medical insurance booklet, and Israeli ration cards. Military papers include a copy of Cardoso’s attestation upon joining the Palestine regiment, his service and pay book, and his discharge book. Photographs dep...