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Topic: STS-107/Auschwitz drawing on stamp
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eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-09-2005 09:39 AM
   
The drawing of a young Czech boy incarcerated (and ultimately murdered) in the Auschwitz concentration camp and that was carried onboard Columbia by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon will be commemorated on a Czech souvenir sheet.Young Petr Ginz' drawing showed a Moonscape and is seen as a symbol that even under the grimmest of circumstances people dreamt of going to the stars. The souvenir sheet will be issued on January 20, 2005. There is announcement, but no image yet on the Czech Post's website: http://www.cpost.cz/postaAn/filatelie/detail.asp?objID=1066 ------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-09-2005 11:53 AM
The Post's website describes what was taken into space as: "...a facsimile of this pen drawing in the desire to fulfil after 58 years P. Ginz’s dreams."Not that it really matters to the souvenir sheet being released, but my understanding was that Ramon carried the original, not a copy. Thanks for the heads-up, Jürgen. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-10-2005 10:49 AM
Robert,Yes, your recollection matches mine. When Ramon presented this item, he said he took the real thing, and there were a number of stories of the Rabbi who kept it of how much it meant to him to see it fly. At least that is how I wrote my story about this item. Alas, the Czech Post's website still does not have any sort of an illustration of this item available. ------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-14-2005 08:17 PM
Denise McCarty features this in her "World of New Issues" column in the Jan. 17, 2005 Linns Stamp News, p. 18. The article has a full size photo of the stamp and souvenir sheet. The stamp has Ginz' drawing of a moonscape and an oval picture of him. It is set in a souvenir sheet with a drawing of Columbia in orbit. The Linns Article says that Ramon carried a copy of Ginz' drawing and that the original is at Yad Vashem (Israel's Holocaust Museum). You can contact the Czech Post Philatelic Service, Postfila (Export Department), CZ-225 06 Prague 7, Ortenovo nam. 16, Czech Republic if you are interested in purchasing some of these. I couldn't get beyond the Czech Post website home page.
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John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-20-2005 03:43 PM
such a sad demise for an item that had been through Hell and back.. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-22-2005 03:21 PM
Karel from the Czech Republic pointed me to a website where the illustration can be seen:
http://www.japhila.cz/images/pic0251.htm http://www.japhila.cz/images/0422.pdf And Tomas Prbyl has an image of the FDC postmarked at Terezin (the ghetto where the Nazis assembled the Czech and Slovak Jews before transporting them to the gas chambers at Auschwitz): http://kosmos-news.kosmo.cz/ginz-znamka.htm
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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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