Postage stamp issued to commemorate Treblinka
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
Creator(s)
- Nationale Mahn- Und Gedenksta?tte DDR (Distributor)
- Horst White (Designer)
- Deutschen Post der DDR (Issuer)
Archival History
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.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift 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.
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on postage stamps.
- Holocaust memorials--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Commemoration--Germany.
Genre
- Object
- Exchange Media