The American Philatelist April 2020

Figure 6. These stamps were donated by a woman whose family tree was broken by the Nazis;
each stamp represents a family member.
showed me briefly.
Later last summer, Uncle Dan was put in hospital due
to dementia. No one seems to know what became of his
belongings.
There is one photo in particular that haunts me — that
of a very pretty young woman, naked and twisted, dead on
the ground.
Now — am I the only one who can remember her?
Who was she? Who were her family? Are they still looking
for her? Where will she go if I too forget her? When I
die — will she die again, too? What was her name?
What was her crime?
K.
My Lord
I pray that these never end,
The sand and the sea,
The rush of the waters,
The light of the heavens,
The prayer of the heart.
Over the course of nine years, the students of Foxborough did
more than just collect 11 million stamps — they created a movement
that touched the world community. The American Philatelic Society
is grateful for their work, for those who freely shared their stories, and
for the responsibility of preserving — and building upon — these efforts.
We hope you will join us at the American Philatelic Center and
bear witness to these stories with us.
The poem “A Walk to Caesarea,” also known as Eli Eli, was
written by Hannah Szenes, who was killed in 1944 after
refusing to give up details about her mission to rescue
Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. The
English translation is at left.
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