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.
1941 October 26
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Postage stamp
overall: Height: 8.380 inches (21.285 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm)
Special commemorative edition philatelic booklet issued for the second anniversary of the General government in Poland. Arthur W. Scharfeld retrieved [found?] this object 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"; three inside pages attached to cover by red rope cord; first page imprinted"POSTWERTZEICHEN/DES/GENERALGOUVERNMENTS/DIE FUEHRERMARKEN/ZUM 2. JAHRESTAG/DES/GENERALGOUVERNMENTS/26. OKTOBER 1941/2 bis 48/GROSCHE"; second and third pages contain six color postage stamps [one on page 2 and five on page 3], each stamp bears drawn profile of Hitler turned to right; printed on lower edge,"DEUTSCHES REICH/GENERALGOUVERNMEN"; each stamp is a different denominations; back of cover imprinted"DP/OSTE"