Buchenwald Subcamp

Archive

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Spungen Family Foundation - Holocaust Postal Collection

c.1940s, Front side - Scrip from a Buchenwald subcamp concentration camp.: Tan paper with printed background in light green ink. Printed text in German using black ink is present. Stamped text in German using purple ink appears. The scrip is valued at .50-Reichsmark.
c.1940s, Front side - Scrip from a Buchenwald subcamp concentration camp.

Tan paper with printed background in light green ink. Printed text in German using black ink is present. Stamped text in German using purple ink appears. The scrip is valued at .50-Reichsmark.

Name/Title

Buchenwald Subcamp

Entry/Object ID

2010.4.8

Scope and Content

c.1940s, scrip a from Buchenwald subcamp concentration camp.

Context

Außenkommando (outisde unit) identifies the scrip originated from a Buchenwald subcamp for slave labor.

Category

Currency

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Scrip

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Money, Paper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Money

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1940 - circa 1950

Primary Language

German

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Central Europe

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Measurement of the full length and width of the archive.

Width

2-13/16 in

Length

4-1/8 in

Relationships

Related Places

Place

* Untyped Place

Buchenwald

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

C. Walrich - Updated (September 22 2026)