First Day Cover: Commemoration of Immigrant Ships

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.124

Object Name

Envelope

Date

11-2-1964

Files

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Description

White envelope with quote from Deuteronomy in Hebrew.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A commemoration of immigrant ships that would bring "illegal aliens", the surviving remnant of the Holocaust with no homeland-part of the Aliyah Bet- to the shores of Palestine then under British mandate.

Dimensions

4 x 7''

Keywords

Immigraiton, Boat, Ship, Commemoration

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"First Day Cover: Commemoration of Immigrant Ships" (1964). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.124.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/810