us-005578-irn552725-irn561094
has or had holder: us-005578
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Unused, rectangular, off-white paper stamp with perforated edges. It includes a printed, ink illustration of a light green menorah overlaid with a metallic gold-colored flame and a red rose with a black barbed wire stem. The menorah is a stylized, seven branched type with the center branch replaced by the flower. The face of each branch is off-white, while the right side is deep and shaded in green. The flame is divided into 6 sinuous tongues that rest within the curved shape of the menorah’s lower half. The rose stem, a short, vertical twist of wire, extends upward from beneath the menorah, and divides the image in half. At the top, the looped, red petals are framed between the menorah’s branches. The denomination, 50 haléř, is printed in the lower left corner in blue ink, just above the year of issue and the names of the designer and printer. There is black, Czech text across the top and in the lower right corner along with a date range. The back is blank and coated with yellowed adhesive.
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identifier: irn561094
has or had some members with language: ces
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
is or was included in: us-005578-irn552725
has record set type: Item
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date: 1987 September 23
scope and content: Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building,along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire used to surround the ghetto. Henry, his mother, and two of his sisters were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt in June 1942. He was deported on multiple work details before returning to the ghetto, where he reunited with his sister, Inge. Heinz and Inge were liberated by the Soviet army on May 9 1945. Irene, her father, and her grandmother were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt in the fall of 1942. In December 1944, she was deported to Poland as a forced laborer until she was liberated by the Soviet army on May 8, 1945. After the war, Henry and Irene briefly met in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, and then again in New York City, where they belonged to the same social circle. The couple married in April 1948, had two children, and regularly gave talks about their experiences during the Holocaust. In 1975, they attended a reunion commemorating the 30th anniversary of Theresienstadt’s liberation, and in 1991 attended a meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ghetto-labor camp’s establishment.
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-01-01
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-camps/1417
title: Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
type: RecordSet
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-12-31
biographical history: Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had four sisters: Dorothea (later Jastrow, 1914-1977), Irene (later Gratz, 1915-1944), Gerda (later Anschel, 1916-1942), and Inge (1925-1997). Jakob was injured fighting for Germany in World War I. He earned the Iron Cross for his service, but illness combined with his injuries made it difficult for him to work afterwards. As a result, the family was poor, and Anna had to work cleaning graves in a Jewish cemetery. As a child, Heinz was artistic and played the accordion and violin. The family was not very religious, but celebrated the major Jewish holidays. They lived in a mixed-religion neighborhood, and had many Gentile friends. Heinz always identified more strongly as German than Jewish, and never experienced antisemitism until 1933. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Heinz was forced to leave his public school, and he and his sisters began working to help support the family. He worked carrying coal in his neighborhood and later in a war supplies factory. In September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and Russia invaded Poland. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Heinz’s sister, Dorothea, her husband, and two children had fled for England earlier that summer, but the rest of the family were unable to leave Berlin. In April 1942, Gerda and her family were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto, and then to the Baltic region, where they were killed. Following the assassination attempt on General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague on May 27, 1942, Jakob was among 50 Jewish men who were rounded up in Berlin by the Gestapo. Jakob and the other men were transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, lined up against a brick wall, and shot. Within the week, unaware of their father’s…
record resource extent: overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
archival history: The stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Irene Frank.