Postage stamp
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The postage stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Diane Scharfeld Isaacs, the daughter of Arthur W. Scharfeld.
approximately 1943 August-1943 September
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Postage stamp
overall: Height: 8.120 inches (20.625 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet issued for the third anniversary of the establishment of the General government in Poland. Retrieved [found] by Arthur W. Scharfeld, while stationed in former occupied Germany after the Holocaust.
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folded, vertically, cardboard cover, imprinted center with Nazi National Insignia; imprinted at bottom"DEUTSCHE POST OSTEN/GENERALGOUVERNMEN"; single page adhered to interior of cover printed with:"ZUM DREIJAEHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER NSDAP/IM GENERALGOUVERNMENT/Mit Zuschlag Fuer den Julturfond des Fuehrers/AUSGABE 13. AUGUST 1943/und 14. SEPTEMBER 1943/Entwurf Walter Kreb Krakau/Druck Rastertiefdruck und Praegedruck/der Staatsdruckerei Wie"; below are five adhesive postage stamps representing Lublin, Krakau [Cracow], Radom, Warschau [Warsaw] and Lemberg [Lvov], each originally drawn and printed in color with embossed seal of Nazi National Insignia center; back of cover imprinted"DP/OSTE"