Postage stamp issued to commemorate Treblinka

Object | Accession Number: 1995.128.64

Overview

Brief Narrative: Postage stamp issued to commemorate Treblinka killing center by the German Democratic Republic in 1963. This was the first stamp of a series issued annually by the DDR under the name Mahn- und Gedensksatte [Remembrance and Memorial Center] in honor of World War II (1939-1945). In July 1942, the Germans built Treblinka II, a killing center, near the village of Wolka Okraglik, Poland, about 50 miles north of Warsaw. Nearly 1 million Jews were killed at Treblinka II before it was closed in the fall of 1943. As Soviet troops moved into the area in late July 1944, camp authorities shot the remaining prisoners and evacuated the camp.
Date: issue: 1963 August 20
Geography: issue: Germany (East)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ilya Kamenkovitch
Markings: front, on stamp, orange/blue/white ink : DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK / 20 / MAHN- UND GEDENKSTÄTTE / TREBLINKA [German Democratic Republic / 20 / Remembrance and Memorial Center / Treblinka]
Contributor: Issuer: Deutschen Post der DDR
Designer: Horst White
Distributor: Nationale Mahn- Und Gedenksta?tte DDR

Physical Details

Language: German
Classification: Exchange Media
Category: Postage stamps
Object Type: Postage stamps (lcsh)
Physical Description: Postage stamp with perforated edges and a brown, orange, and black illustration of a stacked stone, chimney shaped memorial with a large basin on the top emitting a plume of smoke at a right angle, with German text to the right and below. Above is a white panel with the value 20 (pfennig) and German text along the border.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, adhesive

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Holocaust memorials--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Commemoration--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on postage stamps.
Corporate Name: Treblinka (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The postage stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Irina Kamenkovich, Tamara Kamenkovich, and Natella Voiskinskaya, the family of Ilya Kamenkovitch.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Record last modified:: 2023-12-11 15:50:34
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