Jerry and Lydia Milrod collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6007
• English
• overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 3.370 inches (8.56 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

50 Pfennig note from Litmanstadt (Łódź) Ghetto. The object was found beneath the ground in Łódź, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6008
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.620 inches (11.735 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
• irn6009
• English
• overall: Height: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

5 Mark note from Litmnnstadt (Łódź) Ghetto. The object was found beneath the ground in Łódź, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6010
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; 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 and tokens were 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 killi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6011
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; 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 and tokens were 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 killin...