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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

 

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27 Jun 2014
04:02:57pm
During the 2013-14 school year, three creative Freshman high school students at Foxborough Regional Charter School (Foxboro, MA) designed and completed their own interpretative art piece to represent what they had learned about the pre-World War II rescue of more than 10,000 German, Austrian, and Czech children on Kindertransports.

Since most of the children were moved out of harm's way to England and Sweden by train, their collage symbolizes a steam-style locomotive on a continuous train track formed with Love stamps. Trains and children are found on the stamps that form the train, while a crowd formed to the lower right of the engine is created with pieces of stamps that depict children and the families from which they were separated.

The many British stamps the students used, including one of Sir Winston Churchill, especially represent the UK as the destination country for the 669 children who safely arrived on eight transports from Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1939, prior to the German invasion of Poland which (in Sept. 1939) closed the borders to anyone trying to escape.

Hitler (on a stamp) glares down from the engine's gray puff of smoke, set against a blue sky made of "NATO 50 Years" stamps featuring the dove design. Each of the (18 planned) collages in the series includes at least one dove image on or from a stamp, to convey an ongoing reminder of the need for hope and world peace.

Stamps donations of any amount are continuing to be accepted as the Project enters its sixth year trying to collect 11 million stamps to honor each Holocaust victim. As of June 25, 2014, a total of 3,888,794 stamps had been amassed, including MANY from generous Stamporama members. THANK YOU!!!

Will post a few pictures in post to follow.
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27 Jun 2014
04:12:32pm
re: PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

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27 Jun 2014
04:58:07pm
re: PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

An admirable project, far more than most public schools are able to achieve. High school history teachers in British Columbia are so tightly controlled in terms of curriculum that they can spend scarcely a day on the Holocaust. That's due in part to the fact that "history" is a moving, growing target that would challenge even a liberal government, much less the band of bozos in charge at the moment.

I do think it's important to note that the Kindertransports were not an unalloyed success. British xenophobia resulted in the internment of most Jews in Great Britain, including recent refugees, many of whom who were thought to be Nazi agents. Ultimately, they were transported, again, and under arrest, to Canada and Australia, sometimes under conditions that weren't a great deal better than those experienced by criminals who were transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Some refugees, including children, were sent to Île aux Noix, a small island on the Richelieu River less than 100 kilometres southeast of Montreal, where they were separated from German POW's — many of them Nazis — only by a barbed wire fence. Authorities soon began to understand that the Jews weren't a danger and took steps to free them, as long as they had somewhere to go. Many families took in internees, and others internees returned to England to join the British forces. Some were not released from internment until 1944. Many refugees chose to stay in Canada after the war.

Here is a cover in my collection, posted by an internee from ÃŽle aux Noix; it's one of the smallest covers in my collection:

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28 Jun 2014
09:26:07am
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Thanks, Bob, for your additional historical footnote. Seeing the image of your Ile aux Noir cover felt like an exclamation mark following the info you shared.

There's so much more to the "story" that most people today never hear about, or even more sadly, don't care to know.

[i]High school history teachers in British Columbia are so tightly controlled in terms of curriculum that they can spend scarcely a day on the Holocaust.[/i] Interestingly, I just finished trimming and counting an envelope of stamps sent to the Holocaust Stamps Project from a donor in British Columbia. There has been a respectable show of support from some folks in Canada!

YOUR interest is greatly appreciated. Please continue to spread the word...Millions more stamps are needed to approach the goal of 11,000,000 lives being honored, one stamp at a time.

Charlotte



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27 Jun 2014
04:02:57pm

During the 2013-14 school year, three creative Freshman high school students at Foxborough Regional Charter School (Foxboro, MA) designed and completed their own interpretative art piece to represent what they had learned about the pre-World War II rescue of more than 10,000 German, Austrian, and Czech children on Kindertransports.

Since most of the children were moved out of harm's way to England and Sweden by train, their collage symbolizes a steam-style locomotive on a continuous train track formed with Love stamps. Trains and children are found on the stamps that form the train, while a crowd formed to the lower right of the engine is created with pieces of stamps that depict children and the families from which they were separated.

The many British stamps the students used, including one of Sir Winston Churchill, especially represent the UK as the destination country for the 669 children who safely arrived on eight transports from Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1939, prior to the German invasion of Poland which (in Sept. 1939) closed the borders to anyone trying to escape.

Hitler (on a stamp) glares down from the engine's gray puff of smoke, set against a blue sky made of "NATO 50 Years" stamps featuring the dove design. Each of the (18 planned) collages in the series includes at least one dove image on or from a stamp, to convey an ongoing reminder of the need for hope and world peace.

Stamps donations of any amount are continuing to be accepted as the Project enters its sixth year trying to collect 11 million stamps to honor each Holocaust victim. As of June 25, 2014, a total of 3,888,794 stamps had been amassed, including MANY from generous Stamporama members. THANK YOU!!!

Will post a few pictures in post to follow.

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re: PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

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27 Jun 2014
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re: PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

An admirable project, far more than most public schools are able to achieve. High school history teachers in British Columbia are so tightly controlled in terms of curriculum that they can spend scarcely a day on the Holocaust. That's due in part to the fact that "history" is a moving, growing target that would challenge even a liberal government, much less the band of bozos in charge at the moment.

I do think it's important to note that the Kindertransports were not an unalloyed success. British xenophobia resulted in the internment of most Jews in Great Britain, including recent refugees, many of whom who were thought to be Nazi agents. Ultimately, they were transported, again, and under arrest, to Canada and Australia, sometimes under conditions that weren't a great deal better than those experienced by criminals who were transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Some refugees, including children, were sent to Île aux Noix, a small island on the Richelieu River less than 100 kilometres southeast of Montreal, where they were separated from German POW's — many of them Nazis — only by a barbed wire fence. Authorities soon began to understand that the Jews weren't a danger and took steps to free them, as long as they had somewhere to go. Many families took in internees, and others internees returned to England to join the British forces. Some were not released from internment until 1944. Many refugees chose to stay in Canada after the war.

Here is a cover in my collection, posted by an internee from ÃŽle aux Noix; it's one of the smallest covers in my collection:

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Bob



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re: PICTURES of Stamps Collage Artwork:The Kindertransport

Thanks, Bob, for your additional historical footnote. Seeing the image of your Ile aux Noir cover felt like an exclamation mark following the info you shared.

There's so much more to the "story" that most people today never hear about, or even more sadly, don't care to know.

[i]High school history teachers in British Columbia are so tightly controlled in terms of curriculum that they can spend scarcely a day on the Holocaust.[/i] Interestingly, I just finished trimming and counting an envelope of stamps sent to the Holocaust Stamps Project from a donor in British Columbia. There has been a respectable show of support from some folks in Canada!

YOUR interest is greatly appreciated. Please continue to spread the word...Millions more stamps are needed to approach the goal of 11,000,000 lives being honored, one stamp at a time.

Charlotte



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