Below are thumbnails of various ration cards issued to inmates at Theresienstadt. The first is a food ration card. Second is a ration card for extra benefits for World War I veterans. Third is the front and back of a ration card for one pail of coal every monday and one pail of coal dust twice a week. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Cards 1-3" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of additional ration cards. The first is a ration card for a person involved in heavy labor. Second is meal card for a laborer. Third is a ration coupon with a cancellation of the Ration Office. Last is a ration coupon for meals for employees of the Jewish Administration. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Cards 4-7" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of the Orders of the Day for April 12, 1944, issued by the Jewish Self Administration. This document covers the following: item 1.) deals with mail directions; item 2.) deals with directions regarding linen; item 3.) deals with decisions of the ghetto court-- Robert Friedman received one week in jail for stealing meat-- Emma Hecht received seven days in jail for using a lost meal card-- David Schwartz received five days in jail for using a lost meal card-- Emil Lowenstein received one week in jail for leaving a mattress in a hallway which caused a serious injury; and item 4.) deals with punishments for a Hanne Seif and William Kunstler for offending and hurting Jewish policemen. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "April 12, 1944" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a communication, dated April 12, 1944, issued by the Jewish Self Administration. This document covers the following: POSTVOLLMACHTEN deals with actions to speed mail delivery; VEREINFACHUNG DER POSTZUSTELLUNG deals with facilitating the delivery of packages; VERDUNKELUNGSBEANSTANDUNGEN deals with blackout violations; and GERICHTSURTEILE deals with sentences handed down by the ghetto court-- Arthur Ackermann received three days in jail for injuring a fellow inmate-- Regina Roubicek received two days for stealing food-- Elie Brilleman reeived 48 hours in jail for stealing wood-- Berta Heidenreitig received 24 hours in jail for using a lost meal card-- Sofie Palcek received 24 hours in jail for eating stolen potatoes-- Leo Klingenberger received three days in jail for not taking care of frozen alleys. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "July 27, 1944" in the left frame to return.
In the summer of 1942, the Nazis decided to create a ghetto bank, with each resident receiving a fixed amount of money depending in which of five categories such resident belonged. The currency was designed by Peter Kien and printed by the National Bank in Prague. At Heydrich's order, the picture of Moses was changed to conform to the Nazi caricature of a Jew. The other side of the scrip contains the printed signature of Jakob Edelstein as the "Eldest of the Jews in Theresienstdat." The notes are dated January 1, 1943, but did not go into circulation until May, 1943. Below are thumbnails of the front and back of each of the seven denominations of scrip. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Currency" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of various other ghetto documents. First is a permit to leave and enter the Ghetto. This type of permit was rarely issued. The holder was perhaps a doctor or a nurse. Second is a permit from the Judenrat in the Ghetto for a Doctor, Erich Knopfelmacher, to leave buildings after 9:00 at night. Third is a confirmation from Central Administration that Irma Posamentir was given a storm lamp for official use. Fourth is a notification that Irma Posamentir has been nominated to head the central reporting office of the fourth district. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Items 1-4" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of more ghetto documents. First is a pass issued by the Jewish Administration for a Liily Schwarz. Second is the front and back of a document issued in 1943 by the Judenrat in Theresienstadt upon the arrival of a family from Vienna. The members of the family are detailed on the back side. Third is a prescription by a Jewish doctor at Theresienstadt to an inmate. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Items 5-7" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of more ghetto documents. First is a form confirming that an inmate, Wilhem Schwartz, was allotted a pair of shoes for 250 ration point coupons. Second is a form from the administration of the liberated camp dated July 8, 1945, indicating that Lilly Schwarz could leave the camp and that she had no diseases. Third is a notice dated December 19, 1943 from the Ghetto Administration releasing Susanne Fall from work. The last items are ID cards issued to a husband and wife, Gabriel and Katharina Diamant, who were to be deported with the next transport. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Items 8-11" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of more ghetto documents. The first is the front and back of an ID document issued to Armin Friedmann dated March 14, 1945. The back side contains an order to appear at the eye clinic. The second is the front and back of a portion of a notification of poor health issued to Armin Friedmann. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Items 12-13" in the left frame to return.
Frantisek Benes and Patricia Tosnerova, Mail Service in the Ghetto Terezin 1941-45 (1996)
Lance K. Campbell, Prisoner of War and Concentration Camp Money of the 20th Century, P. 101 (1993)
Sam Simon, Handbook of the Mail in the Concentration Camps 1933-1945 and Related Material, (1973). Referred to as Simon
Berkely, Hitler’s Gift, The Story of Theresienstadt, (1993)
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