Raul Hilberg collection

Identifier: irn90020
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 and 2005 by Dr. Raul Hilberg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of ten piece of Łódź Ghetto scrip, 2 commemorative stamps, and an envelope relating to the experiences of Dr. Raul Hilberg as a scholar of the Holocaust as well as one piece of Theresienstadt scrip given to him by Frank Petschek, who had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Germany in fall 1938.

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Displaying items 1 to 13 of 13

Israeli postage stamp commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517374
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Postage stamp issued April 24, 1968, in Israel acquired by Dr. Raul Hilberg. The stamp commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprisin. It depicts a Jewish fighter, based on a detail of the bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport memorializing the rebels, which stands in Warsaw. On April 19, 1943, Jewish fighters in the ghetto made their final stand against German troops sent to deport the last of the ghetto’s population to the death camps. The rebels managed to fight back for four weeks as the Germans resorted to burning down the ghetto building by building. Hilberg was a renown...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8272
- English
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
50 [funfzig] pfennig Łódź Ghetto receipt acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8273
- English
- overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
2 [zwei] mark Łódź Ghetto note acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. I...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8274
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
1 [eine] mark Łódź Ghetto note acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. I...
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by Czech refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8275
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
50 (funfzig) mark Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp note given to Raul Hilberg by Frank Petschek, who, with his wife, as well as the extended Petschek family, had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Nazi Germany in fall 1938. After the war, the confiscation of the Petschek family's vast business and land holdings by the Nazi regime were used for a major case in the War Criminals trials at Nuremberg. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. It was Petschek's generosity that made possible the publication of Hilberg's landmark work,...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8276
- English
- overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin issued acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. I...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8277
- English
- overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. It was i...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8278
- English
- overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. It was i...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8279
- English
- overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
10 mark Łódź Ghetto coin acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. It was ...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8280
- English
- overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
20 mark Łódź Ghetto coin acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. It was ...
First day cover stamp and envelope issued to commemorate Treblinka
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8281
- English
- a: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) b: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
First day cover postcard and envelope acquired by Raul Hilberg of the stamp issued to commemorate Treblinka killing center by the German Democratic Republic in 1963. This was the first stamp of a series issued annually by the DDR under the name Mahn- und Gedensksatte [Remembrance and Memorial Center] in honor of World War II (1939-1945). In July 1942, the Germans built Treblinka II, a killing center, near the village of Wolka Okraglik, Poland, about 50 miles north of Warsaw. Nearly 1 million Jews were killed at Treblinka II before it was closed in the fall of 1943. As Soviet troops moved in...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8282
- English
- overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
10 [zehn] mark Łódź Ghetto note acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. ...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8283
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
1 [eine] mark Łódź Ghetto note acquired by Raul Hilberg, a renowned scholar, who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. The Germans renamed it Litzmannstadt and confined the Jewish population to a ghetto. The Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] for use only in the ghetto. I...