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I'm trying to get some info on who and what post-war Germany celebrated, and if any of these "helpers" were linked to The Holocaust (e.g. in protecting Jews from arrest). I'm most interested in understanding how long Germany took to present itself as being "rehabilitated" before actually acknowledging The Holocaust as part of its very recent history. Most people shown seem to be either pre-Holocaust and much older figures (e.g. Elizabeth Fry) and a collection of Catholic priests.
Also, I'm finding it interesting that in 1953 they issued a stamp for German prisoners of war, and in 1955 for fleeing "fugitives" (although not sure if this were Jews being driven out of Germany, or Germans escaping the advancing Allied liberation forces...). Then in 1956 welfare for graves of German soldiers, 1960 for World Refugee Year, etc. Yet still nothing about The Holocaust or survivors.
This is certainly turning out to be a huge, yet VERY interesting project for me!
Thanks for any info, David
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In 2001 there was a stamp for the Jewish museum in Berlin. There are more, for instance remembering Anne Frank and Edith Stein. But if you want pure Holocaust related stamps you should look for DDR stamps. But that's politically motivated. I am not sure if it means the East Germans had a better way of dealing with the past. They simply justified their dictatorship by pointing to the previous one...
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This info might be of interest to you as the first of a series of stamps from the DDR:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9464
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Just like JanSimon says : Probably more stamps available in the former GDR like these :
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Dear David,
you probably need to give us a good, more exact, definition of what you are looking for.
Commemorations of concentration camps ?
Remembrance Resistance Fighters ?
Commemoration of certain Jewish persons ?
just to mention a few.
I can look through the catalog of the former GDR to look for that kind of stamps but it takes a lot of time.
Can you be more specific ?
If you type in google : "helpers of humanity on german stamps" and then click on IMAGES
you see a lot of these kind of stamps.
Is that what you mean ?
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Hmmm,
I think I understand now.
Look here (german only) : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helfer_der_Menschheit
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Thanks Henry (HockeyNut) that was exactly what I was looking for specifically. All the other ideas and stamps are on my radar for inclusion but I was trying to figure out who the people were being considered humanitarian heroes after the war in those various series.
I can know read the names from the link provided and Google to see if there were any Holocaust connections.
I'll post a couple pages on SOR when I tune up few things.
Cheers, Dave,
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Regarding my stamp album "A Philatelic History of The Holocaust" now being created...
I'm trying to get some info on who and what post-war Germany celebrated, and if any of these "helpers" were linked to The Holocaust (e.g. in protecting Jews from arrest). I'm most interested in understanding how long Germany took to present itself as being "rehabilitated" before actually acknowledging The Holocaust as part of its very recent history. Most people shown seem to be either pre-Holocaust and much older figures (e.g. Elizabeth Fry) and a collection of Catholic priests.
Also, I'm finding it interesting that in 1953 they issued a stamp for German prisoners of war, and in 1955 for fleeing "fugitives" (although not sure if this were Jews being driven out of Germany, or Germans escaping the advancing Allied liberation forces...). Then in 1956 welfare for graves of German soldiers, 1960 for World Refugee Year, etc. Yet still nothing about The Holocaust or survivors.
This is certainly turning out to be a huge, yet VERY interesting project for me!
Thanks for any info, David
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In 2001 there was a stamp for the Jewish museum in Berlin. There are more, for instance remembering Anne Frank and Edith Stein. But if you want pure Holocaust related stamps you should look for DDR stamps. But that's politically motivated. I am not sure if it means the East Germans had a better way of dealing with the past. They simply justified their dictatorship by pointing to the previous one...
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re: Does anyone have info or a link for the German stamps "helpers of humanity" issues?
This info might be of interest to you as the first of a series of stamps from the DDR:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9464
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re: Does anyone have info or a link for the German stamps "helpers of humanity" issues?
Just like JanSimon says : Probably more stamps available in the former GDR like these :
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re: Does anyone have info or a link for the German stamps "helpers of humanity" issues?
Dear David,
you probably need to give us a good, more exact, definition of what you are looking for.
Commemorations of concentration camps ?
Remembrance Resistance Fighters ?
Commemoration of certain Jewish persons ?
just to mention a few.
I can look through the catalog of the former GDR to look for that kind of stamps but it takes a lot of time.
Can you be more specific ?
If you type in google : "helpers of humanity on german stamps" and then click on IMAGES
you see a lot of these kind of stamps.
Is that what you mean ?
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re: Does anyone have info or a link for the German stamps "helpers of humanity" issues?
Hmmm,
I think I understand now.
Look here (german only) : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helfer_der_Menschheit
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re: Does anyone have info or a link for the German stamps "helpers of humanity" issues?
Thanks Henry (HockeyNut) that was exactly what I was looking for specifically. All the other ideas and stamps are on my radar for inclusion but I was trying to figure out who the people were being considered humanitarian heroes after the war in those various series.
I can know read the names from the link provided and Google to see if there were any Holocaust connections.
I'll post a couple pages on SOR when I tune up few things.
Cheers, Dave,
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