Marvin Benn collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517365
• English
• 1920-1942
• folder 1
• Updated 11 months ago

The papers consist of identification cards that belonged to Jewish families in Poland during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517367
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
• Updated 11 months 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
• irn517368
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)
• Updated 11 months 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...