Jewish passports .. family ??

**firefox** · 01-20-2021, 11:29 PM

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yes or no fake or not ,,

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-20-2021 11:29 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**firefox** · 01-20-2021, 11:33 PM

top marks thank you , i will take better photos , of them , it is very interesting now , now is this in german or polish >>
some polish live over the road ???

**Willmore** · 01-21-2021, 12:05 AM

I am happy to help!

Sorry firefox, I don’t know if the stars are original, but I will search and try and find a real example and compare them.

**CBH** · 01-21-2021, 12:10 AM

I’m sure Carl will be by and will be able to give you his opinion on your items, he is a moderator here and a specialist in the subject.

**macapple** · 01-21-2021, 02:23 AM

The cut star looks like a fantasy piece to me , never seen that lettering on a star before.. I specialize in Antisemitic ephemera , I consider stars as Holocaust/ Aka Death items ..

**CARL** · 01-21-2021, 11:23 AM

Both stars are wrong.

The Lodz ghetto coins also look wrong at first glance.

Carl

**CARL** · 01-21-2021, 11:31 AM

Also, the press photograph of the late 1945 Belsen trial, showing former Natzweiler-Struthoff, Auschwitz-II Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Kommandant Josef Kramer, may well be genuine.

The camp / ghetto currency in paper form, i.e. those that were issued at Westerbork, Theresienstadt and Litzmannstadt, all appear genuine yet they are among the most common variety of this type of material.

Carl

**firefox** · 01-21-2021, 01:34 PM

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better photo

**CARL** · 01-21-2021, 02:41 PM

Regarding the coins, I believe that the 20 Mark denomination is the most common counterfeit. The originals have a tiny triangular security triangle that is visible under the "R" in the word MARK on the reverse of the coin.

The 5 and 10 Mark denominations above don't appear to quite show the sharpness of original examples I have seen but I am not an expert with these coins. The paper currency of camps and ghettos is something I am far more comfortable with.

The following gives accurate measurements (in mm) and the type of the material used for the various denominations of original Litzmannstadt ghetto coins:

5Rpf (magnesium alloy, 19mm)
10Rpf (First design from 1942 - magnesium, 21mm)
10Rpf (Second design from 1942 - magnesium, 19mm)
5Mark (magnesium alloy or aluminum, both 23mm)
10Mark (magnesium alloy or aluminum, both 28mm)
20Mark (aluminum, with security mark triangle, 33mm)

Can you possible show close up views of both sides of each of the two coins?

Carl