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A Complete Set of January 1, 1943 Notes from the Concentration Camp at Theresienstadt

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A Complete Set of January 1, 1943 Notes from the Concentration Camp at Theresienstadt
(part of the former Czechoslovakia), all Gem Crisp Uncirculated. Includes a 1 Krone and 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Kronen notes, each a different color, all featuring an engraved vignette of Moses holding the Ten Commandments on the obverse. Campbell Nos. 4111-4117, a complete set of all known denominations. Theresienstadt was established as a "proposed model ghetto", to impress foreign visitors and the Red Cross. According to Campbell, Theresienstadt was nothing more than a transit point to the death camps in Poland. The denomination of these notes is meaningless, because a Krone(n) was not in use in either Germany or Czechoslovakia; therefore, the notes had value only within the confines of Theresienstadt. Each of these notes bears, on the reverse, a printed signature of Jakob Edelstein as "Der Alteste der Juden" (Elder of the Jews). An historical reminder of one of the darkest times in the history of man. (7 notes)