Coper – like metallic tray, engraved with the star of David in the center, "WARSZAWA" in Polish "1941-1943", "אין ידיד נאמן כמו כסף מזומן" ("There is no loyal friend like cash").
Length and width 15.5 x 11 cm, height 1.5 cm., weight 120 gr.
According to the caption on the tray, this dish may have been used to collect cash. Apparently was used by the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, until the year 1943 when the Ghetto was eliminated.
Warsaw Ghetto, The largest ghetto during the Holocaust that was established after Yom Kippur (10, 1939) and destroyed after most Jews from the ghetto were sent to the concentration camps, with the suppression of the ghetto uprising in Nissan (05, 1943). The German occupation authorities enforced on the Jews to bear a mark that identifies them as Jews, captured Jews for forced labor, stole most of their property and expelled about half a million Jews within the walls of the ghetto, there they held them in terrible life conditions, unbearable, with a shortage of food and medication, and sanitation which caused breakdown and mental distress, hunger and disease and lead to very high mortality rates. Although there were wealthy Jews in the ghetto, also a few Jews who succeeded to get rich from the food smuggling business. These people lived a life of means (relatively) and used to hang out at restaurant and nightclubs, at the time that in the nearby streets people collapsed from hunger and destitute. This caption "There is no loyal friend like cash", on the dish used in the ghetto – had a great and penetrating meaning, for holding a large amount of cash, which was very significant during the terrible life conditions that was present in the ghetto, under siege, hunger and cold, when various peculiar laws endangered the prisoners of the ghetto, when money was the cause and distinction between life and death.
General condition good.
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