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Lodz Ghetto 10 Mark coin
Polish (Lodz)
1943
Medium/Technique
Brass
Dimensions
Overall: 0.2 × 2.9 cm (1/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Paul Linsay with his family in memory of Stephan Linsay (Salomon Lewin)
Accession Number2022.21
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ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
An authentic 10 Mark Ghetto coin from 1943.
ProvenanceMarch 1942, given by the workers in Lodz Ghetto to Salomon Lewin (b. 1906 - d. 1981), Lodz, Poland and Cleveland [see note]; 1981, bequeathed by Salomon Lewin, through his brother, Michael Linsday (born Moritz Lewin) to his nephew, Paul Linsay, Newton, MA; 2022, gift of Paul Linsay to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 16, 2022)
NOTE: The cigarette case was a gift to Salomon Lewin, director of the shoe factory in the Lodz Ghetto, by the factory workers. When the Ghetto was liquidated in late 1944, Lewin’s family placed their valuables in a box and buried it in the basement of their house. Following the war, Salomon and his brother Moritz returned to their former home and recovered the box containing the cigarette case.
NOTE: The cigarette case was a gift to Salomon Lewin, director of the shoe factory in the Lodz Ghetto, by the factory workers. When the Ghetto was liquidated in late 1944, Lewin’s family placed their valuables in a box and buried it in the basement of their house. Following the war, Salomon and his brother Moritz returned to their former home and recovered the box containing the cigarette case.