Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

Identifier: irn74547
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 2013 by Eva and Zvi Schloss.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a French lottery ticket and one 50 kronen Theresienstadt scrip, as well as documents relating to the experiences of Meier Schloss while imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in Germany before the Holocaust.

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Zvi and Eva Schloss papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn79396
- English
- 1914-1945
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Consists of postcards and an envelope from the collection of Zvi and Eva Schloss. Includes two postcards, dated 1934-1935, and one envelope, all sent by Meier Schloss [Zvi Schloss's father] while he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp to his family in Ingolstadt, Germany. Also includes one 1939 French national lottery ticket, one 50 kronen piece of Terezin ghetto scrip, and one 1914 postcard from World War I featuring a map depicting anthropomorphic representations of the belligerent nations.
Les Gueules Cassées French National Lottery ticket
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn79397
- English
- 1939
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Les Gueules Cassées [Broken Jaws] French National Lottery ticket with a Hebrew foreign currency stamp acquired by Eva and Zvi Schloss, postwar for their collection. The lottery was offered by the French National Lottery office to provide money for the Union of the Wounded Face and Head Association or Broken Jaws, and other disfigured soldier's organizations. In March 1919, after World War I (1914-1918), France passed a law recognizing the right of injured veterans to compensation. Facial injuries were not considered disabling for work, however, and the maimed and disfigured were not eligibl...
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn79398
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Eva and Zvi Schloss, postwar for their collection. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich. Zvi Schloss, age 10, fled Nazi Germany, with his parents, Meier and I...

Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

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Zvi and Eva Schloss papers

Les Gueules Cassées French National Lottery ticket

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note