Łódź ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, given to a survivor searching for relatives
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
Creator(s)
- Jack Goldman (Subject)
Biographical History
Jack Goldman was in the Lublin and Warsaw ghettos in Poland during the Holocaust. In 1945, he traveled to Łódź, looking for loved ones, but did not find any who had survived. He later settled in the United States.
Archival History
The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Jack Goldman.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Goldman
Scope and Content
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 [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated by the Germans in August 1944.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular paper scrip. Front has large German text in black at center, with smaller German text in black at upper and lower left, and lower right corner. The numerical denomination 20 is in lower left and upper right corner. Serial number in upper left corner. Background is brown, with a lattice design of 6-pointed stars, or Magen David. Back has same brown lattice background. There is a 7-branched candelabrum, or menorah, in lower left corner and a 6-pointed star in upper right. Numerical denomination 20 in lower right. German text in upper left corner and along bottom.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź--Economic aspects.
- Holocaust survivors--Poland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Genre
- Exchange Media
- Object