The Theresienstadt scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Ruth Binder.
Rectangular paper scrip. The front has a graphic design in black and green ink on a green background. The front depicts Moses holding 2 stone tablets with the 10 Commandments in Hebrew characters within a medallion on the left, with German text on the right. The right side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 1 in the lower corner and a 6-pointed Star of David above. The reverse has a green geometric background design with German text and a scrollwork line. Below the text is an engraved signature. The denomination 1 is in the upper right corner. The left side has a wide, off-white border with the denomination 1 in the lower corner with a 6-pointed Star of David above. The plate letter and number is in the upper left corner. front, upper center, printed in green ink : QUITTUNG ÜBER / EINE KRONE [RECEIPT OF / ONE CROWN] front, lower center, printed in middle text then above in green ink : 1 front, lower center, smaller text than above, printed in green 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 green ink : A021 reverse, center, printed in green ink : Quittung / über / EINE KRONE [Receipt / of / ONE CROWN] reverse, lower center, printed in green 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 green ink : Jakob Edelstein
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overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note