Album of Ephemera Items from the Theresienstadt Ghetto – Permits, Notices, Tickets, Banknotes and Documents – ...

Album of Ephemera Items from the Theresienstadt Ghetto – Permits, Notices, Tickets, Banknotes and Documents – Landscape Postcards of Terezin
A unique album featuring side by side ephemera items from the Theresienstadt Ghetto and pastoral landscape pictures of the Czech town of Terezin (adjacent to the ghetto). First half of the 1940s [some items may be earlier or later]. German and some Polish.
The album, presumably made by Karl Langfelder, a prisoner of the ghetto, presents evidence of life in the ghetto alongside postcards.
The ephemera items include: "vaccination card" of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942; two work permits, hand-signed by a supervisor, 1942; a worker's card of the electricity department (Abteilung Elektrizität) of Theresienstadt, 1943; two orders to report to the Barackenbau forced labor unit (the group was sent in 1944 to build barracks for SS officers near the village of Wulkow), 1944; two passes issued by the Judenrat of Theresienstadt (different forms. One stamped with the Judenrat stamp), 1944; seven banknotes from the Theresienstadt ghetto, in the values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Krone; and more.
The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the Nazis in 1941 near the town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia. It was run by the SS, the prisoners suffering from overcrowding, starvation, and disease. In preparation for a visit of an investigative commission of the International Red Cross, the Germans decided to turn Theresienstadt into a "model ghetto": stores, a coffee house, a bank and a school were opened, and gardens were planted in the ghetto. Later, a propaganda film (Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet) was made in the ghetto, screened for representatives of the Red Cross. Not long after the production was completed, most of the prisoners of the ghetto were deported to extermination camps.
Enclosed: four handwritten letters (Czech); two photographs; a prospect of the Yad Vashem exhibition "Drawings from Terezin"; three copies of documents and two newspaper leaves.
A total pf approx. 25 ephemera items and 12 postcards (some incomplete); mounted on ten leaves. Size and condition vary. Some loose items. Album: approx. 24.5X34.5 cm. Detached leaves. Stains. Closed and open tears to edges. Scuffs and traces of mounting to several leaves.