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Italy - 2010 Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5218 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany death camps in eastern Europe. ( from Wikipedia)  |
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Political prisoner, designed by Luxembourg artist Auguste Nicolas Trémont (1892-1980), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Luxembourg on December 20, 1947 as one of a set of four semi-postal (charity) stamps benefiting the National Welfare Fund, Scott No. B129. - nethryk  |
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A quite rare example (2 or 3 known) of what is without a doubt one of the 1st stamps issued on the subject!  (From my personal collection) |
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Singapore
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Germany
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Amnesty International has of course already been shown on this thread, but I didn't find this one (also well-placed in any collection of hands).  (Tants, that also goes for the Rumanian one as well, a striking design; the 27th of January will soon be here.) |
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines issued a souvenir sheet for 100 years after the beginning of WWI. Canouan is one of the smaller islands, but has the largest airport and caters to well-off vacationers.  |
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Germany
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Yemen showed the plight of children in Gaza, 2009. That was before much of Gaza was destroyed in the summer of 2014.  |
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Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Mediterranean landscape blighted by industrial pollution (including barbed wire), designed and engraved by French artist Claude Jumelet (1946- ), and issued by Monaco in November, 1977 to publicize the meeting of the UN Mediterranean Environmental Protection Group (PNUE) in Monte Carlo, November 28 - December 6, 1977, Scott No. 1089. - nethryk  |
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Here is an image of a stamp depicting a symbolic head with what appears to me to be a barbed wire beard, designed by Algerain artist Ismail Samsom (1934-1988), printed by photogravure, and issued by Algeria on March 27, 1971 to publicize the United Nations' International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice , Scott No. 464. - nethryk  |
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