Auschwitz concentration camp scrip type 3, .50 Reichsmark, received by a Polish Jewish inmate

Type 3 Auschwitz scrip, valued at .50 Reichsmark, received by Chaim Hollander when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Scrip was issued in the camps as a means of improving worker productivity. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Chaim and his family went into hiding. In August 1942, they were deported from Sosnowiec to the Srodula ghetto. After his wife and two young daughters were deported, Chaim escaped the ghetto and lived under a false identity until he was betrayed and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1943. He found Fajwal there and they were transferred together to Sachsenhausen. Later they were deported to Mauthausen and then Ebensee, where they were liberated by the US Army on May 6, 1945. Chaim relocated to Belgium, where he had relatives. He heard from a neighbor that his wife was seen in Auschwitz, but was killed there.