us-005578-irn54256-irn61060
type: RecordSet
title: Mexico, paper currency, 1 peso owned by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate
has or had some members with language: eng
history: The bank note was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Stuart Blaugrund, executor, and Cynthia Gladstone, the daughter of Larry Gladstone.
has or had some members with language: spa
history: Ladislav Glattstein (later Larry Gladstone) was born on September 26, 1922, in Vysna Kamenica, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia), the only son of Julius, born 1884, and Anna Blaugrund Glattstein. He was born in the same house where his great-grandfather was born in 1828. His father’s family was Jewish Orthodox and prosperous from forestry, livestock, and farming. Julius was an innkeeper and teacher, and a World War I veteran. His only brother left for America after that war. Anna had six brothers: Joe, b. 1884, and Herman, Max, Sigmund, David, b. 1903, and Maurice, b. 1907. One brother immigrated to El Paso, Texas, in 1903. The others joined him and they operated several retail furniture stores. Ladislav had two sisters: Edith, born November 11, 1924, and Klari, born in 1929. Around 1930, they moved from their small village where they were the only Jews, to Mukacevo (now Mukacheve, Ukraine), partly for its educational opportunities. Ladislav attended a Zionist oriented school, taught all in Hebrew. His main language was Slovak, but he was fluent in German and Hungarian. His father taught religion in the public schools where it was a required subject. In 1938, Ladislav’s grandparents, Ignatz (Isaac) and Hany (Chaya) Ungar Blaugrund, left for El Paso. Ladislav’s mother Anna died in 1938 after a long illness. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and Hungary annexed the Supcarpathian Rus, which included Mukacevo. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to the Nuremberg racial laws of its close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, when Ladislav graduated high school, Jews could not attend university and he began tutoring in Hebrew, Latin, and math. Jewish males were not accepted into the army, but many were conscripted into forced labor battalions, which were controlled by the army. In summer 1941, Hungary joined in the German invasion of the Soviet Union. By 1943, Ladislav was in a forced labor battalion, digging ditches for communication cables and r…
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has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn54256-irn61060/alternateIDs/1
has record set type: Item
has or had holder: us-005578
date: 1945 January 17, approximately 1946 June
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Offwhite paper bank note with a graphic design and English and Spanish text printed in black, blue, and red ink. The face has a black patterned border and the denomination 1 within a medallion in each corner. The serial number and series letter, 1452591, Serie T, and issue date, 17 - 1 45 are printed in red ink on the left and right sides. In the center is a depiction of the circular Aztec calendar stone within a medallion. Two medallions with the denomination 1 and Spanish text flank this medallion. Signatures and printing information are printed along the bottom. The back has a blank border with an ornate, decorative red rectangle with a large scalloped medallion with the denomination 1 on each side. In the center is an image of the Mexico City Independence Monument within a columned frame. There is a black seal encircled by Spanish text on the right side and a black geometric design in the lower left corner. There is Spanish at the top, the textual denomination at the bottom, and printing information in English in the border. The note is worn, wrinkled, and stained.
scope and content: Mexican one peso bank note issued in January 1945 that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to Gunskirchen subcamp. The camp was liberated by the US Third Army on May 5, 1945. Ladislav's father Julius and his sisters, Edith and Klari, were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944; only Edith survived. Ladislav emigrated to El Paso, Texas, with the assistance of his maternal grandparents and uncles in June 1946.
is or was included in: us-005578-irn54256
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn54256-irn61060/acquisitions/1
record resource extent: overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
identifier: irn61060