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- Berlin, Germany, Europe 1
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- Czech Republic (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), Europe 2
- Deggendorf, Germany, Europe 1
- Germany, Europe 3
- Lithuania, Europe 2
- New York, United States of America, North America 1
- Poland, Europe 1
- Russia, Europe 1
- Terezin (Theresienstadt), Czech Republic, Europe 1
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51288
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Red, White, Blue ; Ht: 2,5 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Red, White, Blue ; Ht: 2,5 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Rectangular with a waved line pattern around the outside edges. In each corner there is a number which indicates its value of 50 cents. Narrative: The currency issued in D.P. Camp Deggendorf includes the Denominations of 5 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, and one dollar
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.01-04
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Deggendorf, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51291
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Green, White ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 6 in.
- Date
- January 1, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Green, White ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 6 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- January 1, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-sided. On the front left hand side, there is a circular illustration of an older man with a beard holding a tablet. On the right side is a 6 pointed Star of David. Narrative: Currency from Terezin ghetto worth equivalent of 1 mark
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.05-10
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51299
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 7 5/8 in.
- Date
- July 25, 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 7 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- July 25, 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, one-sided. Inscription “50 millionen” in the background. Verso is white, not printed Narrative: Weimar republic inflation era currency
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.27
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59299
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Ink : purple, red, green ; Ht: 3 11/16 in. x W: 5 9/16 in.
- Date
- 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Ink : purple, red, green ; Ht: 3 11/16 in. x W: 5 9/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Notes
- 100 rubles bill (100 CTO PUBLEH), background inks in stripes of purple, green, red; number 100 printed in red ink in oval of green on other side
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.15-16
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59383
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Blue, Red ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 16 cm
- Date
- February 06, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Blue, Red ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 16 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 06, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Notes
- Air mail envelope with two air mail stamps -one of which has been partly removed. Red and blue border follows bottom and right edges. Two United States Air Mail stamps to the value of 6 cents each. Air mail decal decorates the TL corner with the inscription 'Via Air Mail - Par Avion - Correo Aereo.' There is a yellow liquid stain on TL corner. Envelope is opened, interior decorated with blue crosshatches. Reverse reads 'After Five Days Return To:' Ink addresses are illegible. May be addressed to Lavy Becker in Montreal, Quebec. Return post to N.Y. Narrative: Born in 1905, Becker was a rabbi and a businessman. He was a National Vice-President of Canadian Jewish Congress, an executive chairman of Federation of Jewish Community Services. He was on the Board of Governors Canadian Welfare Council, Board of Directors America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and Board of Governors of the Combined Jewish Appeal. He was a National Vice-President Zionist Organization of Canada; Director of the Joint Distribution Committee in U.S.A. Zone, Germany. He is a former Executive Director Young Men's Hebrew Association. He was a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board in Caribbean countries, a founder of the Beth-El Congregation in the Town of Mount Royal, and he was the founder and first rabbi of Reconstructionist Synagogue, Hampstead. He died in Montreal in 2001.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.28
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75277
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown, Purple ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown, Purple ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. On recto, currency note is dyed blue, with the digits in all four corners dyed purple. Text is also purple. Black decorative border within wider white border. Object is a five-mark bill issued by the Allied Military Authority in Germany, 1944. On verso, decorative motif with large white M in centre. Numbered 046500921. Narrative: Currency issued by the Allied Military Authority, known as Allied Military Currency (AMC) to troops entering liberated or newly occupied countries as a form of currency control. AMC used in Germany was printed in the United States.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.11
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75278
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. On recto, currency note is dyed blue, with the digits in all four corners dyed darker blue. Text is also dark blue. Black decorative border within wider white border. Object is a one-mark bill issued by the Allied Military Authority in Germany, 1944. On verso, decorative motif with large white M in centre. Numbered 090818993. Narrative: Currency issued by the Allied Military Authority, known as Allied Military Currency (AMC) to troops entering liberated or newly occupied countries as a form of currency control. AMC used in Germany was printed in the United States.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.12
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76298
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown, Green ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, White, Blue, Brown, Green ; Ht: 2 5/8 in. x W: 3 1/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- [Later than 1943]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. On recto, currency note is dyed blue, with the digits in all four corners dyed green. Text is also green. Black decorative border within wider white border. Object is a fifty pfennig (1/2 mark) bill issued by the Allied Military Authority in Germany, 1944. On verso, decorative motif with large white M in centre. Numbered 055135336. Narrative: Currency issued by the Allied Military Authority, known as Allied Military Currency (AMC), was issued to troops entering liberated or newly occupied countries as a form of currency control. AMC for Germany was printed in the United States.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.13
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76299
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, brown ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 7 3/4 in.
- Date
- 1922
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, brown ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 7 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1922
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. On recto, beige text on darker horizontal oval; text states that the banknote is issued by the National Bank of Poland with a value of ten thousand Polish marks. At left, within circular frame: portrait of blond woman in profile, looking right. At right, portrait of same woman facing left. Below portraits, Polish text translating to 'ten thousand', '10000' printed above portrait on left. On verso, Polish coat of arms within ornate circular frame, with two wings extending at right and left with large '10000' in beige. Rectangular border around verso composed of scalloped concentric lines. Numbered G0968488; C7449830; F1034435.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.17-19
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76300
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : blue, orange, beige ; Ht: 2 3/8 in. x W: 4 11/16 in.
- Date
- 1921
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : blue, orange, beige ; Ht: 2 3/8 in. x W: 4 11/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1921
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. On recto, large '5' printed in orange in centre within large oval; to right, sphere with bubbled effect on edges containing text stating that this currency was issued by the Czechoslovak state, as well as the type of currency and the date of issue. On left, portrait of Jan Amos Komenský. '5' in dark blue circles printed at each corner. On verso, Czechoslovak coat of arms printed in orange in centre; sideways '5' on either side within spheres with bubbled effect on edges. '5' in dark blue circles printed at each corner.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.20
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Czechoslovakia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76301
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, Brown, Red ; Ht: 2 9/16 in. x W: 4 11/16 in.
- Date
- 1922
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, Brown, Red ; Ht: 2 9/16 in. x W: 4 11/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1922
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Lithuanian
- Notes
- i page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. On recto, Lithuanian coat of arms in centre within circle; text above it says that note is an interim banknote issued by the Bank of Lithuania; value of five litas printed underneath. '5L' printed on both sides. Numbered Series D, 300103 in red ink. On verso, '5' printed in bold on left side of note within small rectangle containing geometric designs.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.21
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Lithuania, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76302
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Brown, Beige ; Ht: 2 3/16 in. x W: 3 3/16 in.
- Date
- 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Brown, Beige ; Ht: 2 3/16 in. x W: 3 3/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Lithuanian
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. On recto, '20' printed on right and left sides, text states that banknote has value of 20 cents and is an interim banknote issued by the Bank of Lithuania. Decorative brown border with geometric motifs within beige border. On verso, Lithuanian coat of arms in centre. On both sides, '20' printed above a smaller c, within a circle. Below coat of arms, Lithuanian text meaning 'twenty cents'.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.22
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Lithuania, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76303
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, Pink, Beige, Black ; Ht: 2 1/2 in. x W: 5 1/16 in.
- Date
- 1940
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Blue, Pink, Beige, Black ; Ht: 2 1/2 in. x W: 5 1/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1940
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Czech
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. On recto, blue rectangle slightly smaller than paper, right of centre, with oval portrait of a blonde woman. '5' printed diagonally at 4 corners of portrait. To the left of portrait is beige square with text in German and Czech stating that this banknote has a value of five kronen and is issued for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. '5' printed diagonally at 4 corners. '5' printed in blue at top left and bottom left corners of note; it is contained within a crown at bottom. On verso, left side, portrait of the same woman in profile. Pink square to the left with the country's coat of arms in centre, name of country and denomination of banknote printed in German and Czech. '5' printed at top right and bottom right corner of banknote over vertical pink rectangle.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.24
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76304
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, Black, Pink, Red, Blue ; Ht: 2 11/16 in. x W: 5 7/8 in.
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, Black, Pink, Red, Blue ; Ht: 2 11/16 in. x W: 5 7/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1942
- Language
- German
- Czech
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded twice vertically. On recto, pink rectangle slightly smaller than paper, right of centre, with square portrait of a blonde girl with braided pigtails. '10' printed at top and bottom right corners of note upon border of flowers. To the left of portrait is pink square with text in German and Czech stating that this banknote has a value of ten kronen and is issued for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. '10' printed at top and bottom left corners of banknote, bolder and larger at bottom. On verso, name of country and denomination of banknote printed in German and Czech. '10' printed within oblong of geometric pattern.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.29
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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