Austrian Stamps And The Holocaust

Some of you may remember that I am doing a study of how the two Germanies (East and West) reflected on the Holocaust through their nation's postage stamps. The matter is far more complicated than I expected, so I have been proceeding rather slowly. On top of this, I have expanded my interest to the neighboring state of Austria.

I am trying to be fair and accurate in my work and am asking for help specifically regarding Austrian stamps. As far as I can tell, Austria has never released a stamp that directly addresses the violence committed against Jews. My hope is that someone more familiar with Austria will correct me if I am wrong.

The most relevant of the stamps I have found that refer to Nazi crimes is one of the early issues released after the war. It is a semi-postal that depicts a tortured hand behind barbed wire. Behind it is the acronym/abbreviation 'KZ.'



Jews alone were not sent to the concentration camps, so I'm unable to claim this specifically as a stamp recognizing the Shoah.

There is this stamp, also, issued in 1995, where a woman is depicted wearing a striped uniform...



but this uniform was not used specifically for Jews.

Perhaps these finer points seem unimportant, but one of the arguments about which I am reading is that Austria--in general terms, of course--focused on its citizens as a whole being victims of the Nazis. Some scholars or commentators see this as a convenient means of ignoring or even attempting to erase any anti-Semitism displayed by Austrians.

Again, help with this survey will be greatly appreciated.

I hope this will not start a debate about the Holocaust, because I'm tire to ear about it.

I don't mean to create any controversy here. I'm trying to look at the issue objectively.

In regards to the Austrian stamps, perhaps someone figured better to be non-specific in the iconography and honor all those who had gone to the camps as opposed to singling out the Jews and appearing to ignore all of the others in the mix of inmates.

Hi KGB,

I'm not aware of any Austrian stamps that would fit in with your topic but you may be interested in the 6th May 2005 stamp that marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of KZ Mauthausen, SG 2762:


I think it is is a suitably sombre stamp for such a terrible subject.

nigel, thank you for the information. This is a stamp I have never seen anywhere. (I've googled quite a lot, but have missed stamps issued in the last ten years or so. My catalog is woefully outdated.)

John, that is one viewpoint, yes. Ironically, it has led, I think, to a kind of graying of history. People seem to forget the wide range of individual groups that were targeted by the Nazis.

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Yes a Klimt called the Maiden and not relevant to this discussion. Good eye.

andy, isn't that first stamp detail from a Klimt from 1913?

And thanks for posting the Simon Wiesenthal stamp. I still haven't placed it in any specific category in terms of my study. I'm certainly pleased that the Austrians issued the stamp despite his having been the subject of controversy there.

There were two unissued values from that post-war Austrian set that might be relevant

Thanks, Polska. (It's hard to properly research unissued stamps though. I'll have to see what I can find.)

I saw this stamp here and I am not looking for one:




Can anyone help me out?

Lawrence
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Issued September 16, 1946 as part of a semi-postal series against fascism, but banned by the Allied Occupation Forces, so not released for general use. Catalog numbers Mi VII, ANK (14). Designed by Alfred Chmielowski, who did a number of post-war Austrian stamps. Pretty high catalog value.

Austria didn't have the "poor Eastern Jews " the Austrian Jewish people were more educated and wealth . The Austrians didn't develop the Hate that build up in Germany and the Eastern countries .Most of them left as the Nazis moved into Austria .

This is the information that I have managed to find, from various sources:

https://stampandstories.blogspot.co...-forget.html

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