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Giving Opportunities (click image to enlarge) Anti-Semitic
overprint on Austrian Banknotes. 1 & 2 Kronen notes from 1922.
(Pick 73 & 74) "Da Gold, da hat die Judenbank. Der Dreck, der
blieb in deiner Hand!". Accusing the Jews of owning the hard
gold, leaving the worthless inflation paper in the hands of
others. The city of Lodz was renamed Litzmannstadt on April 11,
1940 in honor of World War I German general. For the Jews, the
Litzmannstadt (Lodz) ghetto became the second largest after
Warsaw. Daily life in the ghetto was captured on film by German
director Fritz Hippler for the production of "Der Ewige Jude,"
("The Eternal Jew," 1940) sometimes dubbed the "most anti-
Semitic film ever made." As Jews were not allowed to use German
currency, Jewish money was issued on May 15,1940, as indicated
on the front of the currency. Unlike Theriesenstadt, which
depicted the Prophet Moses holding the T