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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
For those of you who haven't heard, in Sept. 2017, the goal set during the 2008/2009 school year - to amass 11 million postage stamps to honor the memories of 6 million Jewish and 5 million more victims of the Holocaust actrocities - was reached! Donations arrived from 47 states and 24 countries!
Meantime, kindergarten(!) to grade 12 students continued to work toward completing the series of eighteen, 18 x 24 inch, stamps collages depicting events and effects of the Holocaust, using thousands of the donated stamps. The artworks were completed by June, 2018.
In the fall of 2018, discussion began about a potential new "home", outside the school, where the entire collection could be permanently displayed in a museum setting where the public could come to learn, reflect, and appreciate the message of remembrance represented by the New England school's 10-year community service learning project.
In October, 2019, staffers from the American Philatelic Society respectfully took over the stewardship of the Holocaust Stamps Project, transporting the 11,000,000 stamps and 18 artworks (along with an eclectic collection of related HSP documentation) to the APS headquarters in Bellefonte, PA.
Sometime in 2020, the official HSP exhibit will open to the public at the American Philatelic Center!!! I'll post more about it as details become available.
Again, many thanks to everyone from SOR who supported and contributed the HSP in any way, whether by actual stamps donation or by getting the word out to others who contributed.
Every single stamp represents a person who lived, laughed, and was loved.
Photo taken the day HSP was transferred from FRCS to the APS!
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Hello SOR friends and supporters of Foxborough (Massachusetts') Regional Charter School's Holocaust Stamps Project!
For those of you who haven't heard, in Sept. 2017, the goal set during the 2008/2009 school year - to amass 11 million postage stamps to honor the memories of 6 million Jewish and 5 million more victims of the Holocaust actrocities - was reached! Donations arrived from 47 states and 24 countries!
Meantime, kindergarten(!) to grade 12 students continued to work toward completing the series of eighteen, 18 x 24 inch, stamps collages depicting events and effects of the Holocaust, using thousands of the donated stamps. The artworks were completed by June, 2018.
In the fall of 2018, discussion began about a potential new "home", outside the school, where the entire collection could be permanently displayed in a museum setting where the public could come to learn, reflect, and appreciate the message of remembrance represented by the New England school's 10-year community service learning project.
In October, 2019, staffers from the American Philatelic Society respectfully took over the stewardship of the Holocaust Stamps Project, transporting the 11,000,000 stamps and 18 artworks (along with an eclectic collection of related HSP documentation) to the APS headquarters in Bellefonte, PA.
Sometime in 2020, the official HSP exhibit will open to the public at the American Philatelic Center!!! I'll post more about it as details become available.
Again, many thanks to everyone from SOR who supported and contributed the HSP in any way, whether by actual stamps donation or by getting the word out to others who contributed.
Every single stamp represents a person who lived, laughed, and was loved.
Photo taken the day HSP was transferred from FRCS to the APS!
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