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Actions Displays	Buchenwald Camp Money Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2009/003:013 TitleBuchenwald Camp Money DescriptionTwo (2) Reichs Mark (RM) note to be used at the Standort-Kantine, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. This note is printed on cream paper with orange decorative underprinting, serial no. 96990. These "Wertmarke", or bonus money coupons, were issued to inmates who were permitted to have their families send them money at the camp. The camp administration would receive the funds and give this camp currency to the prisoner to purchase goods which had been acquired cheaply or produced in the camp. Production placeBuchenwald concentration camp Production date circa 1942 Subject, concentration camps Object nameconcentration camp money Materialpaper Dimensions width: 108.00 mm height: 76.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Julia Myers

Object numberM2009/003:013

TitleBuchenwald Camp Money

DescriptionTwo (2) Reichs Mark (RM) note to be used at the Standort-Kantine, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. This note is printed on cream paper with orange decorative underprinting, serial no. 96990. These "Wertmarke", or bonus money coupons, were issued to inmates who were permitted to have their families send them money at the camp. The camp administration would receive the funds and give this camp currency to the prisoner to purchase goods which had been acquired cheaply or produced in the camp.

Production placeBuchenwald concentration camp

Production date circa 1942

Subject, concentration camps

Object nameconcentration camp money

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Julia Myers

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