Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet issued for Adolph Hitler's birthday. Retrieved [found] by Arthur W. Scharfeld, while stationed in former occupied Germany after the Holocaust.
- Date
-
issue:
1942 April 20
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Diane Scharfeld Isaacs
- Markings
- circular ink-stamped cancellations on each stamp, interior page, each stating "GEBURSTAG DES FUEHRERS KRAKAU/20.IV/1942"
Translation:
Cover: "For the Birthday of the Fuehrer/German Post/East"
Insert: ink stamp reads: "Birthday of the Fuehrer"
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, heavy paper cover, imprinted center with Nazi National Insignia; imprinted above insignia "ZUM/GEBURSTAG/DES FUEHRERS"; imprinted below "DEUTSCHE POST/OSTEN"; inside vertically folded heavy paper page is attached to cover by red rope cord on which three postage stamps are adhered, each stamp bear drawing of profile of Hitler turned to the right; printed at lower edge: "DEUTSCHES REICH/GENERALGOUVERNMENT"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive, cloth
: plastic
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:
- 2024-10-03 11:57:46
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