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The Hidden History of Holocaust Money

(Topic) Santi Elijah Holley - Holocaust currencies include the notes printed by Nazi authorities and distributed in Jewish ghettos and the coupons or camp money used by prisoners in concentration camps. In 2015, a collection of bills and coins was donated by Robert Messing, an amateur numismatist, to the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Messing had amassed a small collection of bills and coins printed by the Third Reich and distributed to interned Jews during the war - some twenty notes and coins from transit, labor, and concentration camps, as well as the Lodz and Theresienstadt ghettos. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has more than 1,500 bills and coins from concentration camps and ghettos. Carol Manley, chief curator at the Holocaust Museum Houston, said they have about 500 pieces of currency from Jewish ghettos and concentration camps. Steve Feller, a professor of physics at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has 200 pieces of Holocaust currency. At least 20 concentration camps across Europe were responsible for creating their own monetary systems.
2019-03-01 00:00:00
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