Ravensbruck concentraton camp scrip, 1 mark note, issued to a Polish Jewish inmate
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Mina Lewkowicz (sometimes spelled Minna, later Mina Goldstein) was born on 1 April 1924 in Łódź, Poland. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 she and her parents were interned in Łódź ghetto in March 1940. Mina and her mother Zlata were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944. Mina worked in the tailor shop sewing SS uniforms. She was paid in camp scrip, but there was nothing to buy with it. Mina was rescued by the Swedish Red Cross in April 1945, when Ravensbrück inmates were transported to Sweden by special arrangement with the German government. Her mother perished in Ravensbrück. She was reunited with her father at a displaced persons camp in Berlin after May 1945. Mina later married Jakob Grochowski (born 20 July 1915), a survivor of the Płaszów ghetto and Mauthausen.
The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Mina Goldstein.
approximately 1942-1945
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Ravensbruck concentraton camp scrip, 1 mark note, issued to a Polish Jewish inmate
overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm)
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Green piece of paper; recto: printed text in black ink,"Deutsche Textil- und Bekleidungswerke/G.m.b.H. Ravensbrück/PRAEMIENSCHEIN/WERT: RM 1.-"; verso: printed text in black ink,"Arbeitsstelle:/E/010"