Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet issued for the second anniversary of the General government in Poland. Arthur W. Scharfeld retrieved [found?] this object while stationed in former occupied Germany after the Holocaust.
- Date
-
issue:
1941 October 26
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Diane Scharfeld Isaacs
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"; three inside pages attached to cover by red rope cord; first page imprinted "POSTWERTZEICHEN/DES/GENERALGOUVERNMENTS/DIE FUEHRERMARKEN/ZUM 2. JAHRESTAG/DES/GENERALGOUVERNMENTS/26. OKTOBER 1941/2 bis 48/GROSCHEN"; second and third pages contain six color postage stamps [one on page 2 and five on page 3], each stamp bears drawn profile of Hitler turned to right; printed on lower edge, "DEUTSCHES REICH/GENERALGOUVERNMENT"; each stamp is a different denominations; back of cover imprinted "DP/OSTEN"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.380 inches (21.285 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 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:
- 2024-07-16 14:36:39
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