Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin, saved by a ghetto resident

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin, saved by a ghetto resident 

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin, saved by a ghetto resident 

overall: | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) 

5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin saved by Halina Wolman Orski who was imprisoned there from 1941 until August 30, 1944, when she was sent to Auschwitz and then Stutthof concentration camps. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1941, the large Jewish population was forcibly relocated into a sealed ghetto. Residents were not allowed to have money and the Germans ordered the Jewish Council to create scrip for use only in the Ghetto. The Germans closed the ghetto in summer 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.