50 Pfennig, Litzmannstadt Concentration Camp & Ghetto in Poland, 1940
50 Pfennig, Litzmannstadt Concentration Camp & Ghetto in Poland, 1940
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- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 50 pfennig note
- Litzmannstadt Concentration Camp & Ghetto in Poland, 1940
- Obverse Image: A menorah and the Star of David.
- Obverse Text: QUITUNG UBER / 50 / 50 PFENNIG / DER AELTESTE DER JUDEN IN LITZMANNSTADT. LITZMANNSTADT, DEB 15 MAI 1940
- Reverse Image: Interlocking stars in purple ink.
- Reverse Text: 50 / QUITTUNG UBER / FUNFZIF PFENNIG / NO 886060 / WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFALSCHT ODER NACHMACHT ODER GEFALSCHT QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT
- Description
- This note was issued under the order of Nazi officials during the Holocaust for use by Jewish people in concentration camps and ghettos. This currency could only be used in limited ways inside places of Nazi imprisonment and served as a device to further isolate and denationalize Jewish people.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- note
- date made
- 1940
- place made
- Poland
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.65 cm x 8.8 cm x.01 cm; 2 7/32 in x 3 15/32 in x in
- ID Number
- NU.77.22.02
- accession number
- 1977.1233
- catalog number
- 77.22.02
- serial number
- 886060
- Credit Line
- The Stack Family
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- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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