Shlomo Flam collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn20685
• English
• overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

50 (funfzig) 20 (zwanzig) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in German occupied Poland beginning in May 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in summer 1944. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Łódź one week later. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, by February 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population of 160,000 into a small, sealed ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Residents were forbidden to have German currency, and the Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [rec...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn20686
• English
• overall: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Notification of a postal ban issued in the Łódź ghetto in German occupied Poland by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council that administered the Ghetto for the Germans. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Łódź one week later. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, by February 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population of 160,000 into a small, sealed ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Residents. Living conditions were horrendous; the overcrowding and lack of food caused widespread disease ...