50 Pfennig, Litzmannstadt Concentration Camp & Ghetto in Poland, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 50 pfennig note
label: Description (Brief)
content: Litzmannstadt Concentration Camp & Ghetto in Poland, 1940
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: A menorah and the Star of David.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: QUITUNG UBER / 50 / 50 PFENNIG / DER AELTESTE DER JUDEN IN LITZMANNSTADT . LITZMANNSTADT, DEB 15 MAI 1940
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Interlocking stars in purple ink.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: 50 / QUITTUNG UBER / FUNFZIF PFENNIG / NO 886060 / WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFALSCHT ODER NACHMACHT ODER GEFALSCHT QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT
label: Description
content: This note was issued under the order of Nazi officials during the Holocaust for use by Jewish people in concentration camps and ghettos. This currency could only be used in limited ways inside places of Nazi imprisonment and served as a device to further isolate and denationalize Jewish people.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Poland
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Stack Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.77.22.02
label: accession number
content: 1977.1233
label: catalog number
content: 77.22.02
label: serial number
content: 886060
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
label: Object Name
content: scrip
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.65 cm x 8.8 cm x .01 cm; 2 7/32 in x 3 15/32 in x in