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Judaica Raoul Wallenberg Engraved Fdc
The cover is on a standard # 6 envelope measuring 6" X 3.75".
For an unknown reason, White Ace Philatelic Company placed the wrong image on the cachet for the Wallenberg First Day Cover. The image on the left is not of Wallenberg, but of the Hungarian Minister of State, Gabor Kemeny.
In October 1944, a German memorandum was delivered to the new Minister of State, Gabor Kemeny, in which the Germans offered safe passage for all Jews with passports from neutral countries and the safe emigration of 1,000 Jewish children in return for resumption of the deportation. Eichmann demanded 50,000 Jewish workers for the Reich and proposed a march by foot from Budapest to the German border. Szalasi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Gabor Kemeny and the Minister of Defense, H. Beregffy, visited Hitler on December 4, 1944. Kemeny was not at all involved in the rescue of Hungarian Jews, but is rather known as a perpetrator.
Therefore, the image on the First Day cover suggest some sloppy historical documentation of the kind that can become the basis of misconceptions even about images. The image on the stamp itself is correct.
Argentina Honors Raoul Wallenberg - Judaica
The Argentine Postal Service released on November 21, 1998 the stamp "Raoul Wallenberg". It was issued based on a suggestion made by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF). |
Stamp "Commemorative Mural": was released on December 1998 in Homage to the Victims of the Holocaust, and of those murdered in the terrorist attacks against the Israel Embassy and the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires. The stamp illustrates a Hagadah of Pesach (ritual prayer book of the Jewish Easter), rescued from a concentration camp in the Toulouse area (France) in 1942, is the only stamp with Hebrew fonts ever isued in Argentina. The original Mural was placed inside the Main Catholic Church of Argentina and consists in two glass panels containing pages of hebrew prayer books rescued from the ghettos of Warsaw and Treblinka. This Mural has no precedents in the world in the history of the Jewish-Christian relationships |
On September 4th, 2000, the Postal Service of Uruguay issued the postal seal dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg. |
Judaica: 3135 Wallenberg on Holocaust FDC
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Wallenberg Commemoration at the Stockholm Conference
Gustav Kraitz - Wallenberg Memorial Bronze Briefcase. New York, 1987. |
Gustan Kraitz Design for Wallenberg Memorial, New York 1987. Gift of Hilel Storch, Stockholm. |
Stockholm Conference - Wallenberg Commemoration. Per Anger, Wallenberg's Associate, 2nd from left. |
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 Imre Varga - Design for Wallenberg Memorial 1987. |
 Imre Varga - Design for Wallenberg Memorial 1987. |
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