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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78421
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : printed : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 6,8 cm x W: 5 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1943]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : printed : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 6,8 cm x W: 5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1943]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided. Value of 0.50 Reichsmark. Printed with the number 751567 and a seven circles design in the c. This coupon was used in Sachsenhausen concentration camp as currency. Narrative: Prämienschein notes were issued in labor camps to improve the workers productivity. The prisoners were able to exchange this currency for food. The Sachsenhausen camp was operational from 1936 to 1945. A total of more than 200 000 people were confined in this camp. At the beginning, the majority for the prisoners were hold for political reason. Starting in 1938, the camp started to used mainly used as a tool for the Nazi's Anti-semitic policies. Sinti, Roma and homosexuals were also made prisoners and sent to this camp.
- Accession No.
- 2014.21.06
- Name Access
- Loronci, Susan
- Places
- Oranienburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78433
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped, handwritten : Ink : beige, purple, black ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 20,3 cm
- Date
- May 16, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped, handwritten : Ink : beige, purple, black ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 20,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 16, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Czech
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided. On the b.l. a small hand-written text was added in blue ink. The letters gives detail on Deszo Losoncy's liberation at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Narrative: Deszo Losoncy, also known as Löwy or Losonczy, was born in Szentes, Hungary on 1904-04-12. He was deported to Birkenau, Poland for 14 to 16 months as a political prisoner. In this concentration camp, he was forced to work and clean Dr. Josef Mengele's laboratory. Later, Deszo Losoncy was also detained in Sachsenhausen, Germany, where he was liberated on 1945-04-25 by the Red Army. After the war, he lived in Budapest, Hungary and became a textile professional. He left Hungary soon after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in Montreal, Canada in 1957-01 with his wife Sylvia Holcz.
- Accession No.
- 2014.21.18
- Name Access
- Loronci, Susan
- Places
- Oranienburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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