Food Coupon Pendant from Lodz Ghetto

A food coupon is engraved on this special pendant. The pendant was an anniversary gift from a boy, Nathan, to his parents. Sadly, Nathan died of a disease and did not live to give his parents the pendant. A neighbor gave the present to the parents, and Nathan’s mother kept it throughout the war.

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Why, of all things, was a food coupon engraved on a pendant in the ghetto?

Food coupon pendant, Lodz Ghetto, Poland