us-005578-irn543307-irn561871
scope and content: Italian 2 Lire scrip, series 1943. Allied military currency.
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn543307-irn561871/acquisitions/1
archival history: The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Richard Schifter.
identifier: irn561871
title: 2 Lire scrip
has record set type: Item
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn543307-irn561871/alternateIDs/2
has or had holder: us-005578
biographical history: Richard Schifter was born in Vienna, Austria on 31 July, 1923, the son of Paul (also known as Pinchas, 1886-1942?) and Balbina (née Blass, 1893-1942?) Schifter, both of whom were originally from Poland. Paul, who was from Stanisławow (modern day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), originally had citizenship in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Balbina, who was raised in a town near Warsaw, and later in Lublin, had citizenship in the Russian Empire. Following World War I the birthplaces of both of them were in the new Republic of Poland. They opted for Polish citizenship, but settled in Vienna. Paul had apprenticed in a drugstore in Stanisławow, and around 1907 came to the United States and worked for a pharmaceutical firm in Rochester, New York. By 1913 he had saved sufficient funds to enable him to return to Stanisławow and purchase a drugstore. When World War I began, he was inducted into the Austro-Hungarian army, and served for the duration of the war with the pharmaceutical staff of various military hospitals, first in Hungary and later in Poland. When he was stationed in Lublin in 1916, he met Bajla (Balbina) Blass, whose parents had previously owned a farm near Warsaw prior to moving their family to Lublin. Paul and Balbina were married in a Hasidic ceremony in Lublin in 1919, and after they settled in Vienna, they repeated their vows in a temple in that city. By that time, Paul had sold his drugstore in Stanisławow and used the funds from that sale to purchase another one in Vienna, which he operated until he was forced to give it up, after the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938. On March 11, 1938, as Paul, Balbina, and Richard heard Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg announce, on radio, his resignation and the Nazi assumption of power, they immediately decided to emigrate to the United States. Paul promptly wrote to an uncle in New York, Harry Brettholz, seeking affidavits. Because of the family’s limited means, and since Paul and Balbina were both natives of Poland, and …
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has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn543307-irn561871/alternateIDs/1
is or was included in: us-005578-irn543307
record resource extent: overall: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
type: RecordSet
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Italian 2 Lire scrip, series 1943. Serial number A63043750A.