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Due to popular request, the Holocaust Stamps Project (HSP) now has full color reproductions of its first ten completed student-created collages available for sale.
The HSP is a Community Service Learning educational initiative at Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxboro, Massachusetts. All students at the K to 12 public school-of-choice have the opportunity to participate in the Project where they not only learn lessons in history, but also discuss the importance of living a life of tolerance, acceptance, and respect for differences.
The HSP's goal is to collect 11 million canceled postage stamps, one for each of the 11,000,000 victims (Six Million Jews and 5 million others labeled as "enemies of the State") of Nazi atrocities. Since the collection began in 2009, more than 7,250,000 stamps have been donated from several countries and 34 states.
Students are creating a series of 18 original artworks using thousands of the donated stamps as their art medium. Every collage depicts some aspect of their new knowledge about the events and effects of the Holocaust.
Proceeds from the sale of 10-card note sets and full size (18 x 24) poster reproductions will support the future of the Holocaust Stamps Project. Initial funds will be used to professionally digitally scan the 18 large-scale artworks and to upgrade all the collages' framing materials to the highest possible museum-quality standards, thus insuring long term preservation.
As of May 6, 2016, eleven collages have been completed, with 4 more in progress, and the 16th design "on the drawing board".
The Holocaust Stamps Project is seeking a public venue where the entire collection of stamps, artwork, and related materials can be professionally curated and permanently exhibited for access by all.
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sent off some more stamps to the Holocaust Project just 2 days ago :-)
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This is very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Sorting through "The Hoard" I had decided there were some countries I wasn't really interested in seriously collecting, for example Hungary and Romania, although I do want to have at least a couple pages of interesting stamps from every country. Looking through my piles of stamps I noticed some nice SON cancels from both World War eras. Some were significant dates (e.g. 9 November 1938) and, when I Googled some of the town names, I also began to find stories of some of those towns no longer existing after the forced removal of their Jewish citizens.
I have started a binder to use in my search for other towns so affected, expanding to do the same for date/town postmarks from Russia given it's own history of pogroms.
Does anyone know a site to get town names (from the Holocaust period) surrounding the various concentration camps throughout Europe? I'm thinking those within a range of 25 km would be of special interest.
I've talked about this with my two teenaged daughters who, as usual, pronounce this latest obsession to be "kinda, like, cool...but, like, really, like, weird dad...
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lemaven,
I might be steering this discussion in another direction but thought this might go with your question.
I saw a map of Europe showing the concentration camps. It is amazing the number of camps there were, so it might be easier to start out with a smaller radius to the camps. Here is a link to an exhibit about one city the Nazis destroyed.
http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0171/index0171a.htm
It's an eight frame exhibit. Amazing the stories that are told through philately.
On another note about the Holocaust if you ever have the opportunity to visit Washington D.C. you must see the Holocaust museum. As much as I thought I knew about the Holocaust this was an experience, gut wrenching.
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Vinman: Thank you, my friend, that is very helpful. I have never been to Washington but I am hoping to do so someday.
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Due to popular request, the Holocaust Stamps Project (HSP) now has full color reproductions of its first ten completed student-created collages available for sale.
The HSP is a Community Service Learning educational initiative at Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxboro, Massachusetts. All students at the K to 12 public school-of-choice have the opportunity to participate in the Project where they not only learn lessons in history, but also discuss the importance of living a life of tolerance, acceptance, and respect for differences.
The HSP's goal is to collect 11 million canceled postage stamps, one for each of the 11,000,000 victims (Six Million Jews and 5 million others labeled as "enemies of the State") of Nazi atrocities. Since the collection began in 2009, more than 7,250,000 stamps have been donated from several countries and 34 states.
Students are creating a series of 18 original artworks using thousands of the donated stamps as their art medium. Every collage depicts some aspect of their new knowledge about the events and effects of the Holocaust.
Proceeds from the sale of 10-card note sets and full size (18 x 24) poster reproductions will support the future of the Holocaust Stamps Project. Initial funds will be used to professionally digitally scan the 18 large-scale artworks and to upgrade all the collages' framing materials to the highest possible museum-quality standards, thus insuring long term preservation.
As of May 6, 2016, eleven collages have been completed, with 4 more in progress, and the 16th design "on the drawing board".
The Holocaust Stamps Project is seeking a public venue where the entire collection of stamps, artwork, and related materials can be professionally curated and permanently exhibited for access by all.
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sent off some more stamps to the Holocaust Project just 2 days ago :-)
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This is very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Sorting through "The Hoard" I had decided there were some countries I wasn't really interested in seriously collecting, for example Hungary and Romania, although I do want to have at least a couple pages of interesting stamps from every country. Looking through my piles of stamps I noticed some nice SON cancels from both World War eras. Some were significant dates (e.g. 9 November 1938) and, when I Googled some of the town names, I also began to find stories of some of those towns no longer existing after the forced removal of their Jewish citizens.
I have started a binder to use in my search for other towns so affected, expanding to do the same for date/town postmarks from Russia given it's own history of pogroms.
Does anyone know a site to get town names (from the Holocaust period) surrounding the various concentration camps throughout Europe? I'm thinking those within a range of 25 km would be of special interest.
I've talked about this with my two teenaged daughters who, as usual, pronounce this latest obsession to be "kinda, like, cool...but, like, really, like, weird dad...
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re: Holocaust Stamps Project postage stamp collage art on notecards and posters
lemaven,
I might be steering this discussion in another direction but thought this might go with your question.
I saw a map of Europe showing the concentration camps. It is amazing the number of camps there were, so it might be easier to start out with a smaller radius to the camps. Here is a link to an exhibit about one city the Nazis destroyed.
http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0171/index0171a.htm
It's an eight frame exhibit. Amazing the stories that are told through philately.
On another note about the Holocaust if you ever have the opportunity to visit Washington D.C. you must see the Holocaust museum. As much as I thought I knew about the Holocaust this was an experience, gut wrenching.
Vince
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Vinman: Thank you, my friend, that is very helpful. I have never been to Washington but I am hoping to do so someday.
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