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10 Kronen Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Der Älteste der Juden in Theresienstadt (Jewish Council of Elders, Theresienstadt) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Designer(s) | Peter Kien |
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| Reverse description | The central panel bears large letterpress text within an ornate guilloche-bordered oval cartouche. A circular Star of David medallion is positioned at lower left, with the numeral 10 below it. The date and issuing authority appear in a banner at the foot, accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature. |
| Reverse lettering | Quittung über ZEHN KRONEN THERESIENSTADT AM 1. JÄNNER 1943 DER ÄLTESTE DER JUDEN IN THERESIENSTADT |
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These notes were never legal tender in any meaningful sense. The SS ordered the Theresienstadt Judenrat to design and issue a camp scrip system in 1943 as part of a coordinated deception — the currency was introduced alongside a dummy bank, a sham postal system, and other props staged for a Red Cross inspection visit in June 1944. Prisoners received wages in this scrip for forced labor but had almost nothing to spend it on; the few camp "shops" were largely theatrical.
Peter Kien, who designed this note, was a trained artist and poet deported from Czechoslovakia. He was murdered at Auschwitz in October 1944, four months after the Red Cross inspection his work helped stage.