Currency
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Printed : Ink : Green, Black, Beige ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Printed : Ink : Green, Black, Beige ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Creator
- Kien, Peter
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Value of 1 Krone. On the front, a bearded man holding, Moses, is holding the Tables of the Law inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The man's hand is place in front the lower part of the text hidding the 6th commandment ''You Shall Not Kill' . The verso has a rectangular graphic design and a 6-pointed Star of David on bottom left corner. Narrative: The ghetto-labor camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt), operational from November 1941 to May 1945, had its own currency. German currency was confiscated upon arrival. Every Reichsmark was exchanged for 10 Theresienstadt Krone.1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 krone were in circulation in the camps to keep the illusion of a ''normal life'' since the Jewish money couldn't buy goods.
- Accession No.
- 2014.23.36
- Name Access
- Janulaitis, Cynthia M.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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