INV. 112 · Artwork
Hundred-kroner Theresienstadt banknote
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Scrip used inside the ghetto. The chapter describes Terezin as a showcase shown to the Red Cross in 1944, not as a safe refuge.
- Type
- Artwork
- Nature
- Period documentAn original document, print or object produced in the very period it illustrates.
- Date of the object
- 1943The note is dated 1 January 1943 and signed by Jakob Edelstein. The book's figure is a fifty-kroner note of the same currency.
- Image
- Vwpolonia75
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- Commons API, 2026-10-15
Sourced historical context
Germans opened Terezin on 24 November 1941 and called it a model ghetto. It was a camp, freed on 8 May 1945. In June 1944, before an International Red Cross visit, the ghetto was beautified and many Jews were shipped to Auschwitz to hide overcrowding.