First Day Cover: Czechoslovakian Commemoration of Petr Ginz

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.133

Object Name

Envelope

Date

1-20-2005

Files

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Description

A white envelope with a blue image of a space shuttle.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Czechoslovakian First day Cover from 2005 commemorating Petr Ginz. Petr Ginz was a Czechoslovakian diarist, novelist, and artist transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in 1944 where he was murdered at the age of 16. The stamp shows his drawing "Earth seen from the Moon."

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 6 1/2''

Keywords

Czechoslovakia, Commemoration, Czech Republic, Petr Ginz

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"First Day Cover: Czechoslovakian Commemoration of Petr Ginz" (2005). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.133.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/819