Usually, children drawing stamps are cute stamps with a message of peace, hope and happiness and reflect the children world. But not in the case of the set of children drawing stamps issued by Czechoslovakia in 1968 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Munich agreement (1938-1968).
The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps. Its conditions were deliberately engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners, and the ghetto also served a propaganda role.
The stamps show drawings by Jewish children in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp:
- Jew and Guard, by Jiri Beutler
- Butterflies, by Kitty Brunnerova
- Flowerpot, by Jiri Schlessinger
Posted 10/02/2023 1:18 pm
