Closed Auction

lot # 224 - Holocaust - camps money.

Wednesday Dec 19, 2018 17:00 Asia/Jerusalem

Poland - 20 mark - 1940 - ghetto Lodz - with water mark

banknote of 20 mark issued in the Lodz ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Lodz was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In F

ebruary, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
with water mark, rare.


Estimate: $150 - $200