Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Anti-Nazi Stamps – USA and Britain, 1930s-1940s

Opening: $150
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Collection of anti-Nazi postage stamps. USA and Britain, [1930s to mid-1940s].
1. American stamp with the caption "Boycott Hitler, not Germany", [1930s or early 1940s]. Illustration of a locked gate, with a sign that reads "brotherhood of mankind", and a dog with a swastika around its bdy. A caption on the bottom reads "Nazi Products Not Wanted".
2. A sheet of stamps advertising the "Allies Inside Germany" exhibition, designed by the artist Hans Arnold Rothholz. Britain, 1942. The exhibition was initiated by the organization of German refugees in Britain, the "Free German League of Culture in Great Britain", which was active during the years 1939-1945. On the stamps, a series of illustrations depicting various activities of the underground organization against the Nazi rule in Germany – hanging broadsides, retaliations, sabotage and more.
3. "Help us survive", four stamps issued by the aid organization Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, with an illustration by Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). New York, 1944.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
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