Liquidation of Lodz Ghetto [20]

65th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto

Subject: no
Face value: 20 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Weight: 28.28 g
Finish: standard
Mintage: 50000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: oxidated
Date of issue: 2009-08-19
Issue price: 104 pln
An image of the Star of David placed in the centre of the crown of the stylized image of an oak tree. At the top, the semicircular inscription, 65. ROCZNICA LIKWIDACJI (65th ANNIVERSARY OF LIQUIDATION). At the bottom, the image of barbed wire fencing. Above the fencing, the inscription, GETTA w ŁODZI (OF LODZ GHETTO).

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
At the top and on the right-hand side, an image of the Eagle, established as the State Emblem of the Republic of Poland. Underneath, the inscription, 20 ZŁ, against the stylized image of a fragment of a brick wall. On the left-hand side, the stylized image of a twig of an oak tree. In the rim, the inscription, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA, and the notation of the year of issue, 2009. The Mint's mark, M/W, under the Eagle's left leg.

Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska

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65th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto

29 August 1944 marks the day of the last transport from the Lodz Ghetto, called Litzmannstadt Ghetto by the Germans. It is a very important date in the history of two nations - Jews and Poles. The Lodz Ghetto had the second largest Jewish population (after Warsaw) in occupied Poland and it was the longest existing ghetto in Europe. Between 1940 and 1944, over 200,000 people were deported to the ghetto by the Germans.

Before World War II, Lodz was a multi-ethnic city, and its over 200,000 Jews were the largest national minority. In early 1940, the German occupation authorities established a ghetto in Lodz, where the Jews from Lodz and neighbouring towns, as well as 20,000 Jews from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg and Germany were brought and forced ...

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