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100 Kronen Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Der Älteste der Juden in Theresienstadt |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 100 Korun |
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| Obverse lettering | QUITTUNG ÜBER HUNDERT KRONEN 100 WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NAHMACHT ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHT BRINGT, WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT. (Translation: Receipt of One Hundred Kronen 100 Whoever falsifies or takes this receipt or brings forged receipts into circulation, will be severely punished.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Quittung über HUNDERT KRONEN THERESIENSTADT, AM 1.JÄNNER 1943 DER ÄLTESTE DER JUDEN IN THERESIENSTADT Jakob Edelstein (Translation: Receipt for One Hundred Kronen Theresienstadt, January 1, 1943 The oldest of the Jews in Theresienstadt Jakob Edelstein) |
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These notes were designed and printed entirely within the camp itself, under SS orders — the currency was part of a deliberate Nazi deception program intended to give Theresienstadt the appearance of a self-governing Jewish settlement with a functioning economy. The Ältestenrat was compelled to issue them; Jakob Edelstein, whose signature appears here, was deported to Auschwitz in late 1943 and shot in June 1944.
Peter Kien, who drew the design, was a trained artist from Varnsdorf. He died in Auschwitz in October 1944. The currency was never redeemable for anything of actual value — no goods in the camp could be purchased with it that were not already rationed or withheld.