Catalog number: FPL633/17

Philatelic Commemorative Sheet - Tribute to Holocaust Victims

Philatelic Commemorative Sheet Slovakia 2017 - Tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust

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Philatelic Commemorative Sheet Slovakia 2017 - Tribute to the Victims of the Holocaust
Author: Catherine Račkovičová
Edition: 1,800 pcs
Issue number: 059 PaL 633/17
Date of issue: 24.03.2017

Specification:
On March 25, 1942, the first transport of Jews left Slovakia. Anti-Jewish policy in Slovakia entered the phase of forced deportation of Jewish residents beyond the borders of the then Slovak state. The first transport dispatched from the railway station in Poprad included 1,000 Jewish girls and single women from eastern Slovakia. The train headed to the Auschwitz extermination camp. From 25.3. to 20.10.1942, the so-called first wave of deportations from Slovakia took place. It affected 57,628 people, only a few hundred survived until the end of World War II. Residents designated as Jews according to the so-called Jewish Code (1941) were summoned to transports in writing shortly before entering concentration centers (located in every district town). Those summoned were informed that they were going to work for the Third Reich. Most transports (38) in 1942 headed to camps and ghettos around the city of Lublin, the rest (19) to KT Auschwitz-Birkenau near the city of Oświęcim. The Slovak side paid 500 Reichsmarks (then about 5,000 Slovak crowns) for each Jew deported. The first wave of deportations was voluntarily carried out by the then Slovak Republic using its own administrative, power, and technical means. The second wave of deportations (30.9.1944 – 31.3.1945) began after the occupation of Slovakia by the Nazi army and affected approximately 13,000 Jews. The entire process was conducted under the direction of the Nazis with the active assistance of Slovak authorities and was accompanied by mass murder of detained Jewish residents, insurgents, and civilians directly in Slovakia. Transports initially headed to KT Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the end of 1944 to the Jewish ghetto in Terezín and to KT Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. The artistic designs of this postage stamp issue were created by students of the J. Vydra School of Applied Arts in Bratislava based on preserved realities from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oświęcim.

source: pofis.sk