THERESIENSTADT GHETTO CURRENCY DONATED
Howard Berlin forwarded this Times of Israel article about a donation of Theresienstadt Ghetto currency to the National Library of Israel.
Thanks. -Editor
Currency used in the Theresienstadt Ghetto was donated to the National Library of Israel.
The six bills featuring a Star of David and a sketch of Moses holding the Ten Commandments were received by the National Library days before
Israel’s Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. They are worth a total of 263 Kronen, the currency of the ghetto, which was located in
northwestern Czechoslovakia.
All ghetto residents were forced to convert their money and some property into the currency of the camp or ghetto in which they were imprisoned.
If someone managed to escape, that person then had no way to purchase food or clothes.
The bills were donated by Ruth Brass of Britain, in honor of her father, the late Lionel Schalit, a prominent Zionist and community activist, and
a leader in the European Maccabi Movement.
To read the complete article, see:
Theresienstadt Ghetto currency donated
to National Library of Israel (https://www.timesofisrael.com/theresienstadt-ghetto-currency-donated-to-national-library-of-israel/)
Arthur Shippee forwarded this article from the Jerusalem Post which included more images of the notes. Thanks. -Editor
"It seems that the bank, the bills and the ‘wages’ received by many prisoners during imprisonment in the ghetto had an additional role: they gave
the impression of ‘normalcy;’ of an orderly and routine everyday life that the Nazis indeed tried to present to the official representatives of the
Red Cross who visited the Terezin Ghetto. The bills present documentation of the chilling reality in the days of the Holocaust: imaginary symbols of
a ‘normalcy’ that never existed, under the shadow of persecution and eradication," according to National Library of Israel expert Dr. Stefan
Litt.
To read the complete article, see:
CURRENCY FROM
THERESIENSTADT GHETTO DONATED TO NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL
(https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Currency-from-Theresienstadt-Ghetto-donated-to-National-Library-of-Israel-588117)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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