Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet issued for the third anniversary of the establishment of the General government in Poland. Retrieved [found] by Arthur W. Scharfeld, while stationed in former occupied Germany after the Holocaust.
- Date
-
issue:
approximately 1943 August-1943 September
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Diane Scharfeld Isaacs
- Markings
- Translation:
insert, recto: "For the Third Year Anniversary of the NSDAP in the Generalgouvernement/With a Surcharge for the Cultural Fund of the Fuehrer"
"EDITION 13. AUGUST 1943/14. SEPTEMBER 1943"/"Design Walter Kreb Cracow"/"Printing Screen-Process-Intaglio and Embossed Printing by the Stateprintinghouse Vienna"
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Postage stamps
- Object Type
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Postage stamps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- folded, vertically, cardboard cover, imprinted center with Nazi National Insignia; imprinted at bottom "DEUTSCHE POST OSTEN/GENERALGOUVERNMENT"; single page adhered to interior of cover printed with: "ZUM DREIJAEHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER NSDAP/IM GENERALGOUVERNMENT/Mit Zuschlag Fuer den Julturfond des Fuehrers/AUSGABE 13. AUGUST 1943/und 14. SEPTEMBER 1943/Entwurf Walter Kreb Krakau/Druck Rastertiefdruck und Praegedruck/der Staatsdruckerei Wien"; below are five adhesive postage stamps representing Lublin, Krakau [Cracow], Radom, Warschau [Warsaw] and Lemberg [Lvov], each originally drawn and printed in color with embossed seal of Nazi National Insignia center; back of cover imprinted "DP/OSTEN"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.120 inches (20.625 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The postage stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Diane Scharfeld Isaacs, the daughter of Arthur W. Scharfeld.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-06-25 10:56:26
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