Łódź ghetto scrip collection

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Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11831
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Five (5) mark scrip note from Łódź Ghetto
Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11832
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Fifty-pfennig (50) scrip note from Łódź Ghetto
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11833
- English
- 1943
- overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Updated 8 months 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...