Jack Goldman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517636
• English
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.370 inches (8.56 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip with a receipt value of 50 cents issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517637
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

1 (eine) 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 kill...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517638
• English
• overall: Height: 2.620 inches (6.655 cm) | Width: 5.120 inches (13.005 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip with a receipt value of 5 marks issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517640
• English
• overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip with a receipt value of 10 marks issued beginning May 15, 1940, in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517641
• English
• overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip with a receipt value of 50 marks issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517643
• English
• overall: Height: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Scrip with a receipt value of 20 marks issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their occupation of Poland in September 1939. The scrip was given to Jack Goldman by a survivor of the ghetto in 1945. Goldman was himself a survivor of the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos. He was in Łódź in 1945 looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. When the Germans transferred Jews to the Łódź ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat...