German Commemorative Sheet and Stamp

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.426

Object Name

Stamp, Postage

Date

4-5-1995

Files

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Description

White sheet titled, "50. Jahrestag der Befreiung der Gefangenen aus den Konzentrationslagern." Includes a serated stamp and the names of concentration camps surrounding it.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: German Commemorative sheet issued in Bonn. This sheet commemorated the liberation of concentration camps. This was issued near the 50th anniversary of the ending of German National Socialism and the liberation of concentration camps in the Third Reich during World War II.

Dimensions

2 2/3 x 4 1/2"

Keywords

Barbed wire, Germany, Commemoration, Bonn Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbuerg, Gross-Rosen, Herzogenbusch, Kauen Kloga, Krakau-Plaszow, Lublin-Majdane, k Mauthausen, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Ravensbrueck, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof, Vaivara, Waschau

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"German Commemorative Sheet and Stamp" (1995). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.426.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1129