The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Edith Jacobson.
Rectangular, discolored, light brown paper coupon with a pale blue floral patterned rectangle with scalloped edges and a narrow unprinted border printed on the front. There is German text printed in the top left corner and diagonally across the center. The serial number 61718 is in the lower center and the denomination 1 is in the lower right. A HASAG camp name is stamped in purple ink diagonally right of center. The reverse is blank. front, right, stamped, purple ink : [illegible] HASAG [illegible]
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overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
1 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon given to Edith Jacobson as a souvenir while she was in a displaced persons camp in Switzerland. The coupon is stamped with the name of a HASAG slave labor camp. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Division, part of theThird Army, arrived in camp and discovered more than 21,000 starved and ill inmates.
Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for HASAG slave labor camp, 1 Reichsmark, given to a Jewish refugee