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.
1944 July 15
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Postage stamp
overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 5.880 inches (14.935 cm)
Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet commemorating five culturally influential people in celebration of the Generalgouvernement of 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"; two heavy paper pages attached to cover by red rope cord, the first imprinted"ZWEITE SONDERMARKENREIHE/KULTURTRAEGER IM WEICHSELRAUM/MIT ZUSCHLAG FUER DEN KULTURFOND DES FUEHRERS/AUSGABE 15, JULI 1944/Entwurf Prof. Wilhelm Dachauer, Wien/Stich Prof. Ferdinand Lorber, Wine/Druck Linientiefdruck der Staatsdruckerei, Wine" five postage stamps are adhered to the second page, color stamps bear drawn images of five people with his profession listed below his name, each stamp is labeled"HUMANIST/1507 KONRAD CELTI", BAUMEISTER/U. BILDHAUER/ANDREAS SCHLUETER/1664 171", HANDELSHERR HANS BONER/152", AUGUST DER/STARKE/1670 173" and"GEOLOGE/GEORG GOTTLIEB PUSCH/1791 184", at lower edge of each stamp"GROSS DEUTCHES REICH/GENERALGOUVERNMEN"; back of cover imprinted"DP/OSTE"