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Lot No. 757

Auction No. 14
Category World
    Coins and Banknotes
      Miscellaneous
Est. $120
Status Archived

 

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Germany/Poland 1943 10mk Litzmanstadt Concentration Camp aluminium receipt token with (translated) inscription reading, "The oldest of the Jews in Litzmanstadt". Reverse shows a star & inscribed "Ghetto 1943". In 1939 in the city of Lodz, the German SD/Gestapo established the Litzmanstadt Concentration Camp for Jewish Nationals & Roma. Initially paper money was issued in return for work performed, however that changed to aluminium coinage in 1942.