us-005578-irn79192-irn28690
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title: Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note
record resource extent: overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)
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scope and content: Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: front, upper center, printed in brown ink : QUITTUNG ÜBER / FÜNF KRONEN [RECEIPT OF / FIVE CROWNS] front, lower center, printed in middle text then above in brown ink : 5 front, lower center, smaller text than above, printed in brown ink : WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHMACHT / ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT. / WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT [ANYONE WHO FALSIFIES OR DISTORTS OR FAKES THIS RECEIPT, OR COUNTERFEITS RECEIPT, WILL BE STRICTLY PUNISHED] reverse, upper left in border, plate letter and number, printed in brown ink : reverse, center, printed in brown ink : Quittung / über / FÜNF KRONEN [Receipt / of / FIVE CROWNS] reverse, lower center, printed in brown ink : THERESIENSTADT, AM 1.JANNER 1943 DER ALTESTE DER JUDEN / IN THERESIENSTADT [THERESIENSTADT, ON 1. JANUARY 1943 THE ELDER OF THE JEWS IN THERESIENSTADT] reverse, bottom right, printed in brown ink : Jakob Edelstein
identifier: irn28690
has or had some members with language: deu
date: 1943 January 01
history: The Theresienstadt scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Thelma Dixon.
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