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2 Kronen Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Jewish Self-Administration, Theresienstadt (Ältestenrat der Juden) |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a fine guilloche underprint overall. At left, a Star of David vignette is flanked by the numeral '2'. The denomination is repeated in large letterpress text at upper centre, with the anti-counterfeiting warning legend printed below. |
| Reverse lettering | QUITTUNG ÜBER ZWEI KRONEN 2 WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHMACHT ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT. (Translation: Receipt of Two Kronen. Whoever falsifies or counterfeits this receipt or circulates forged receipts will be most severely punished.) |
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The Theresienstadt camp scrip was not currency in any functional sense. Ordered by the SS and produced within the camp itself, it was part of a deliberate fiction — the pretense that Theresienstadt was a self-governing Jewish settlement rather than a transit and concentration camp. Inmates received these notes as nominal "wages" for forced labor, but there was almost nothing to buy with them. The Vorzugsladen, the camp's controlled shop, operated intermittently and offered little.
The scrip's real purpose was propaganda. The International Red Cross visited Theresienstadt in June 1944, and the currency was among the props used to suggest normal economic life. Most notes were destroyed after the war or perished with their owners. The 2 Kronen denomination survives in smaller numbers than the higher values.