Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Morris Tobias, on behalf of the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B'nai B'rith International, Melbourne, Australia
- Markings
- RAOUL WALLENBERG / Honorary Citizen, 2013 / AUSTRALIA 70 c
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Postage stamps
- Object Type
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Commemorative postage stamps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Block of four stamps
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The postage stamps were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Morris Tobias, on behalf of the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B'nai B'rith International, Melbourne, Australia.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-10 14:42:40
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn538553
Also in Raoul Wallenberg Unit, B'nai B'rith International, Melbourne, Australia collection
Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Included is a block of four stamps, a first day cover, and special display edition of a 70 cent commemorative stamp issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013. The first day cover and commemorative display also include the two other stamps issued in this series, which honored Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, as humanitarians who were officially recognized as such by the government of Australia, along with Wallenberg. Also included is a special commemorative sheet issued by Australia Post in conjunction with the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B'nai B'rith International, in time for the centenary of Wallenberg's birth in 2012. These sheets, issued in a limited, numbered set of 1,000, included a sheet of Australian 60 cent definitive stamps, depicting the Southern Cross, with tabs depicting different images of Wallenberg alongside each stamp. Surrounding the stamps is a portrait of Wallenberg along with a chronology of his life, and in the sheet included in this collection are post-marks with the logo of the Wallenberg Unit of the B'nai B'rith, commemorating the centenary of Wallenberg's birth in 2012 and the bestowal of honorary citizenship on him in 2013.
Date: 2013-2015
Envelope with postage stamps
Object
Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013. Also includes the two other stamps issued in this series, which honored Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, as humanitarians who were officially recognized as such by the government of Australia, along with Wallenberg.
Postage stamps
Object
Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013. Also includes the two other stamps issued in this series, which honored Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, as humanitarians who were officially recognized as such by the government of Australia, along with Wallenberg.
Postage stamps
Object
Special commemorative sheet issued by Australia Post in conjunction with the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B'nai B'rith International, in time for the centenary of Wallenberg's birth in 2012. These sheets, issued in a limited, numbered set of 1,000, included a sheet of Australian 60 cent definitive stamps, depicting the Southern Cross, with tabs depicting different images of Wallenberg alongside each stamp. Surrounding the stamps is a portrait of Wallenberg along with a chronology of his life, and in the sheet included in this collection are post-marks with the logo of the Wallenberg Unit of the B'nai B'rith, commemorating the centenary of Wallenberg's birth in 2012 and the bestowal of honorary citizenship on him in 2013.
