The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 44, October 31, 2004, Article 14

CONCENTRATION MONEY EXHIBIT TRAVELS

  In an earlier E-Sylum issue, we mentioned the traveling
  exhibit of concentration camp money currently making
  the rounds.   An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  describes the collection's latest stop. [Sorry we're late
  publishing this - it just missed last week's issue. -Editor]

  "A traveling exhibit of one of the world's larger collections
  of paper money issued in Nazi-imposed ghettos and
  concentration camps is on display through Oct. 29 at
  Frost Bank, 4200 S. Hulen St.

  The currency -- issued at 13 concentration camps including
  Auschwitz in Poland, Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany,
  and the Warsaw, Poland,ghetto -- is on loan from the
  Holocaust Museum Houston."

  "Livia Levine of Fort Worth, a survivor of the camps at
  Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Germany, said it was
  something she had never seen.

  "Not only did I not see it, I never heard about it," Levine,
  80, said as she visited the display.

  She said there was nothing to buy or sell in the camps.

  "Sometimes we traded a little piece of bread for a little
  piece of potato. That was it," she said."

  The artifacts are part of a 400-piece collection donated to
  the museum by Charleton Meyer, a money and coin
  collector from Shreveport, La., who collected it to help
  document the Holocaust."

  To read the full story, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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