Title

Youth Aliyah Commemoration Stamps

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.371

Object Name

Stamp, Postage

Date

1-1-1984

Files

Description

Front: Five stamps with 'Essen '84' printed over them. Back: Image with 'Jews from Germany disembark at Jaffa (1933)' caption above a reproduced stamp with caption, 'The stamp depicted here was issued in 1983, in honour of 50 years of "Aliya" (immigration) of Jews from Germany.'

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Youth Aliyah was founded by Recha Freier on January 30, 1933, the day Hitler took power. With remarkable prescience, she sought to protect German youth from impending doom by sending them to pioneer training camps in Palestine to be educated and absorbed into kibbutzim, the indigenous farming communities. She helped 5,000 Jewish children escape from Germany. Others were smuggled out of Europe during the war to Palestine, the U.K., and other countries. Many more came to Palestine between the end of the war and the establishment of the state of Israel. Youth Aliyah also helped Jewish child survivors in D.P. camps. Frier herself experienced significant opposition from the German Jewish community who thought her methods illegal. She eventually fled to Palestine herself, taking a group of 40 teenagers with her.

Dimensions

6 x 10 3/4"

Keywords

Youth Aliyah, commemoration, stamps, Freier

Subcollection

Freier

Recommended Citation

"Youth Aliyah Commemoration Stamps" (1984). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.371.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/626