Lot 4940

Description

Germany-Netherlands, Amersfoort Concentration Camp, ten cents 027049 and twenty five cents 006195 (watermarked paper), both dated 1 Jan. 1944, (Campbell 4146b, 4147a [p.96], Stahl No.103-5, p.63-4); Westerbork Concentration camp, twenty five cents note, Series BB No.1583, dated 15.2.1944, (Campbell No. 4172b(2), Stahl, No.119-120, [p.68]). Extremely fine - uncirculated, the first two rare. (3)

Amersfoort housed political prisoners from 1941-1945. The triangle on the note indicates use by prisoners. The Westerbork camp was a refugee camp for Jews leaving Germany during the 1930's, but after the occupation by Germany it was turned into a transit camp holding prisoners going to the death camps in Poland.