10 Pfennigs Łódź Ghetto

The Łódź Ghetto scrip was issued under direct Nazi administration, with Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski — appointed "Elder of the Jews" by the German authorities — serving as the nominal issuing authority. The currency was deliberately designed to isolate the ghetto economy entirely from the outside world: Jews were forced to exchange all Reichsmarks for this scrip upon entering, with no mechanism for conversion back. It rendered the population economically captive.

Printed within the ghetto itself, the notes bear Rumkowski's name and were derisively nicknamed "Rumkies" or "Chaimki" by residents. The 10 Pfennig denomination was the smallest issued, useful mainly for internal food ration transactions. Łódź was the longest-surviving major ghetto, liquidated only in August 1944.