Westerbork Scrip

 

Westerbork Camp Currency – Scrip for Transit Camp Inmates



Date: February 15, 1944

Location: Westerbork, Netherlands

Medium: Printed paper currency

Collection: Yavneh Klos Collection, Holocaust Archive 

These 10, 25, and 100 cent vouchers were issued in the Westerbork transit camp, a Nazi-controlled facility in the Netherlands from which 107,000 Jewish people were deported to death camps in Poland. Only 5,000 survived. Bearing a vignette of the camp and signed by SS-Obersturmführer A. K. Gemmeker, the scrip replaced confiscated personal currency and was used as controlled payment for labor. These notes offer a chilling look into how economic manipulation was used as a tool of dehumanization.

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