JUDAICA PHILATELY: Cancellations and Cachets

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POL0101		01/01/2001	Mint postcard entire with portrait of Edith Stein, who was born into an observant Jewish family, converted to Catholicism in 1922. She died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz	$1.95

POL0102		01/01/2001	Mint postcard entire for Wieniawski violin competition, named after Henryk Wieniawsk, Polish violinist and composer, born in Lublin to a Jewish family, although his father later converted to Catholicism. This International competition has been held every 5 years since 1952.	$1.95

POL0201		01/01/2002	Mint postcard entire on 60th Ann of ZEGOTA, the council to aid Jews of Poland during the Holocaust, founded in 1942. It operated under auspices of Polish government-in-exile. With Star of David on stamp	$1.95

POL0501		01/01/2005	Mint postcard entire to honour the State Jewish Theater in Warsaw, named after the Theatre's founder and patron, Ester Kaminska, and her Academy Award nominated daughter Ida Kaminska, on 55th Ann of it's founding, with portrait	$1.95

POL0601		01/01/2006	Mint postcard entire to honour the great Jewish painter Maurycy Gottlieb on 150th Ann of his birth. Maurycy Gottlieb was one of 11 children of Polish-speaking Galician Jews from the western part of Ukraine. He studied under Jan Mtejko, poland's greatest artists. Self protrait of the artist on the stamp	$1.95

POL0801		01/01/2008	Mint postcard entire on the 65th Ann of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Stamp depicts Star of David, with cachet showing the famous picture of the last Jews being herded out of the Ghetto to certain death.	$2.50

POL0802		01/01/2008	Witold Pilecki, Catholic Polish soldier during WWII, was author of Witold report, 1st intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp. This report enabled Polish government-in-exile to convince the allies that the Holocaust was taking place.	$2.75

POL0901		25/07/2009	Esperanto Congress in Bialystok, Poland Jul/Aug 2009. 150th Ann of the birth of Ludwig Zamenhof, founder of the Esperanto language. With stamp entire portrait	$2.75

POL1001		01/01/2010	Mint postcard entire honouring Irena Sendlerowa, Polish Catholic Righteous Gentile who helped save over 2500 Jewish children while working with the Polish underground and the Jewish self-help organization ZEGOTA. Stamp shows her a young girl	$2.75

POL1002		01/01/2010	Mint postcard entire for the Jewish Cultural festival in Cracow, largest such festival in the world	$2.75

POL1003		01/01/2010	Henryk Slawik, a Polish journalist and József Antall Sr, a Hungarian civil servant jointly rescued about five thousand Jews during the war years; when their story was documented by eye witnesses, they were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.	$2.75

POL1004		01/04/2010	Tykocin Synagogue Torak Ark in cachet in lower left corner of entire	$2.75

POL1101		01/09/2011	100th Ann birth of Wladislaw Szpilman, Polish Jewish pianist and composer. The Roman Polanski film THE PIANIST starring Adrian Brody in title role, tells the story of how he survived the Holocaust, and lived until July 2000. His entire family perished. Entire and cachet portrait.	$2.75

POL1401			Children Victims of the Holocaust. Mint entire with stamp depicting Jewish victims, and cachet showing Jewish children	$2.95

POL1701			Kudwig Zamenhof, founder of the Esperanto language. Mint entire stamp portrait of Zamenhof, as well as cachet showing cover of his treatise on Esperanto.	$2.95

POL1801			Pawel hertz was a Polish writer and poet, translator and publisher. Born to a Polish Jewish family in Warsaw. He died in 2001, years after being baptized as a Catholic. Imprint and cachet with a portrait of Hertz	$2.25

POL1901			Matylda Getter was a Polish Catholic nun, cooperated with Irena Sandler and the Zegoita Resistance Movement which saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Honoured as a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem	$2.25