Warsaw Ghetto postage stamp,all denomination. RARE

Warsaw Ghetto postage stamp,all denomination. RARE
Warsaw Ghetto stamps - About money in the Warsaw Ghetto Up until the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the conventional means of payment of the Issuing Bank in Poland were valid for the General Government. As early as the spring of 1941, however, an underground administration of the ghetto is said to have produced primitive banknotes (tokens) which, whether their authenticity and use in the ghetto, are argued. Contemporary witnesses contradict each other and there are no files on this. Between supporters and opponents - both sides also from the ranks of survivors - there were even doubts as to whether the prints should serve as substitutes for money or as postage stamps. So Ferdinand Wallner, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, could not imagine in 1969 that there would be money in the ghetto. ghetto bills or postage stamps were produced, although he remembered that there were activities to organize the ghetto post, which was under German control. But he didn't know any details. In a letter dated June 24, 1969, Wallner, then President of the International Association of Experts for Philately (A.I.E.P.), gave his opinion on the “ghetto marks” (see illustration on the following page). On August 10, 1969 he added: “Yesterday I received the 5 and 10 Gr. for examination and meanwhile I have to add that the essays were submitted to the German occupying power in April 1941, but the issue and use were forbidden! ”(See figure below).“ The numismatist and Philatelist Henry Fenigstein worked in the Jewish hospital of the ghetto until the uprising in April 1943 and was already collecting money and postal history documents. He could not remember ever hearing or seeing such prints in the ghetto 1982. that this probably after were produced by naive collectors after the war. It was not uncommon for survivors from concentration camps that they did not come into contact with the camp money during their imprisonment or were unable to remember it because of the memories of the daily struggle for survival and the The horrors of camp life had carved too deep scars into their memories.) It is possible that the primitive handprints made with linoleum panels were only intended to serve as samples, which could even have been made on behalf of the Judenrat. Allegedly a request from November 10, 1941 is also supposed to Approval of the prints for internal traffic in the ghetto had been rejected by the German headquarters. Even if there were such requests from April or November 1941, which is hardly conceivable in terms of the design of the prints, it would probably not have been a simple rejection. After all, not only are the motives clear, but also the abbreviations, which would certainly have been questioned. For example, "RZWW" stands for "Rada Zydow (ska) w Warszawie" (Jewish government in Warsaw) and "SPDZ" for "Skladnica Pocztowa Dzielnicy Zydowskiej" (Jewish postal department). Where there are missing facts, myths and stories grow Stanley Kronenberg assumed in 1971 that these were post office coupons that were used for mail and parcel traffic in the ghetto. The 50 Groszy print shown has a size of about 15 cm x 11 cm Not only unusual, but also impractical format for a “postage stamp.” In 1983, ghetto survivor Arnold Shay believed in the theory that the prints were used by the post office as a medium of exchange because there were problems with a lack of change . You could hardly buy anything in the ghetto for change, and prices skyrocketed on the black market. This is precisely why there was hardly any change, for example for postage stamps, in circulation. " Another theory is that the prints were used both as postage stamps and as substitutes for change. If the prints are actually from 1941, then - despite numerous claims - they are in truth not directly related to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. This came about two years later. If the theories of the questionable applications for admission of the prints for the ghetto are not correct, then use in the warring ghetto would be conceivable, as a substitute for money and as a means of propaganda at the same time. Quite a few numismatists - collectors as well as dealers (also in Poland) - assume that these are simply fantasy prints from the time after the Second World War, with which profit should be made on the collectors' market. However, their relative rarity speaks against this, what could of course also be intended. Since there is no definitive clarity about the authenticity and use of the prints, or whether they are products of a collector's fantasy or of collector fraud, the prints should be listed here in order to present them to a broad public. What is certain is that they were made by hand with self-cut linoleum panels on simple office paper. The print was on one side and the stamps were cut out with scissors. For the Warsaw uprising of August 1944, not to be confused with the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto of April 1943, stamps from the General Government with a portrait of Hitler were stamped as an overprint on the orders of the head of the Polish field post, Major Maksimilian Broszkiewicz . They were found during the fighting in the post office, Warsaw 1 ", but were never returned. More info USHM :