Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note
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Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note
1943 January 01
overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
Scrip, valued at 20 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.