20 Kronen Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

20 Kronen (Theresienstadt Concentration Camp) - obverse20 Kronen (Theresienstadt Concentration Camp) - reverse

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Features

Location Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic)
Type Paper vouchers › Confinement voucher
Year 1943
Value 20 Kronen
Composition Paper
Size 130 × 67 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
241881

Obverse

The Star of David, and Moses carrying the Tables of Law with the Ten Commandments

Script: Latin

Lettering:
QUITTUNG ÜBER
ZWANZIG KRONEN
20

WER DIESE QUITTUNG VERFÄLSCHT ODER NAHMACHT
ODER GEFÄLSCHTE QUITTUNGEN IN VERKEHT BRINGT,
WIRD STRENGSTENS BESTRAFT.

Translation: Receipt of Twenty Kronen, Who false or replace this receipt or brought forged receipts, will be highly punished.

Reverse

The star of David, Denomination

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Quittung
über

ZWANZIG
KRONEN

Translation: Receipt of Twenty Kronen

Comments

The first draft of these notes was rejected by SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (Germany's viceregent in Prague and responsible for the Concentration Camps in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), as it showed Moses with too western ("Aryan") facial features. Accordingly more semitic features were added to the portrait (curly hair, hooked nose).
Another request of Heydrich was that Moses' hand had to cover the Sixth Commandment
(i.e. "Thou shalt not murder" - לא ארצח - "lo tir-tzach")

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1943-Jan-01  Signature: Jacob Edelstein

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