us-005578-irn90020-irn517374
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scope and content: Postage stamp issued April 24, 1968, in Israel acquired by Dr. Raul Hilberg. The stamp commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprisin. It depicts a Jewish fighter, based on a detail of the bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport memorializing the rebels, which stands in Warsaw. On April 19, 1943, Jewish fighters in the ghetto made their final stand against German troops sent to deport the last of the ghetto’s population to the death camps. The rebels managed to fight back for four weeks as the Germans resorted to burning down the ghetto building by building. Hilberg was a renowned scholar who published the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust and initiated the academic study of the Holocaust. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. Almost all of his family members in Europe were murdered during the Holocaust.
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history: The postage stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Raul Hilberg.
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date: 1968 April 24
record resource extent: overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
history: Raul Hilberg was born on June 2, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Jewish parents. His father Michael fought and was wounded in the First World War (1914-1918). In Vienna, he had a business selling household goods to people on installment plans. His parents attended synagogue occasionally. Raul was never religious, but he did attend a Zionist school. In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria and soon passed legislation to strip Jews of their rights as citizens. The family was ordered out of their apartment by gunpoint. His father was arrested during Kristallnacht, September 9-10 1938, but was soon released because he was a World War I veteran. The family left Austria and after stopovers in France and Cuba, reached Brooklyn, NY, on September 1, 1939. Michael worked in a factory and Hilberg attended Lincoln High School. He enrolled in Brooklyn College until enlisting in the Army in 1944. He was deployed to Germany in 1945 with the 45th infantry division. He served with an Oklahoma division that liberated Dachau, but was not with the unit at the time. He was with the first troops that entered Munich. He was later assigned to the Army documentation division, which needed staff fluent in German. The war ended in May 1945. Nearly all the members of Hilberg's family on both his mother's and father's side were murdered during the Holocaust. Postwar, Hilberg assisted in the search for German documents to aid the prosecution at the war crimes trials. His unit was housed in the Nazi Party’s former offices in Munich. Crates containing Hitler’s personal library were stored there and Hilberg was fascinated by the contents. After his discharge, he returned to Brooklyn College and changed his major from chemistry to history and political science, graduating in 1948. He then focused on political science and international law and completed a master’s in public law in 1950 at Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College and then obtained a federal job in the War Docume…
title: Israeli postage stamp commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising
has or had some members with language: heb
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Unused, rectangular paper stamp with perforated edges with an illustration of the head and upper body of a man holding a rifle. The denomination 0.60 is printed in the lower left. There is Hebrew text in the lower right border and corner and English and Arabic along the left border. A section of the sheet is attached above the top imperforation. The back is blank and coated with adhesive.
has or had some members with language: ara
has or had some members with language: eng
identifier: irn517374
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