Interim Cover with Label Commemorating Jewish Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.57

Object Name

Envelope

Date

1948

Files

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Description

White envelope with blue stamp depicting man with gun in top right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Interim cover with black Tel Aviv postmark on a JNF label (1946) with red overprint “Doar” or “Post” commemorating the April, 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto to thwart the final effort of the Nazis to transport the remaining ghetto population to the death camps. The stamp contains the text ‘Revolt of the Warsaw Ghetto 19 April 1943 - 14 Nissan 5713’.

Dimensions

6 x 5"

Keywords

Warsaw, Tel Aviv

Subcollection

Label, Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"Interim Cover with Label Commemorating Jewish Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto" (1948). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.57.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1759