First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
Israel
Flags over the Ghetto
Date of Issue : 2 April 2013
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
Israel Flags over the Ghetto
Date of Issue : 2 April 2013
The stamp is issued to commemorate 70 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In September 1939, as the German army approached Warsaw, the leaders of Polish Jewry fled the city. The transport of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began in the summer of 1942. Youth movements took on the leadership role in the ghetto and began to organize in preparation for an uprising.
Two 23 year-old young men, Betar member Pawel Frenkel and Hashomer Hatzair member Mordechai Anielewicz, commanded two resistance organizations – the Jewish Military Organization (ZZW) and the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB), which led the uprising.
On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, German troops entered the ghetto equipped with automatic weapons, artillery and armored vehicles. They were faced by a few hundred young Jews equipped with only meager weapons. The primary fighting inside the ghetto lasted 10 days. The main battle, “The Battle for the Flags”, took place in Muranowski Square between ZZW fighters led by Frenkel, who waved the Zionist flag (now the Israeli flag) and the Polish flag from one of the rooftops, and German forces commanded by General Jurgen Stroop. It took the Germans four days to subdue the resistors and remove the flags.
Shortly before the uprising broke out, Frenkel addressed a meeting of his fighters, "Comrades! We will die before our time but we are not doomed. We will live as long as Jewish history continues to live." Frenkel fell in a gun battle with German troops.
The stamp features Pawel Frenkel, commander of the Jewish Military Organization, against the background of the building on Muranowski Square that was set ablaze by the Germans. The Zionist and Polish flags raised by the ZZW fighters are visible on the roof.
Two 23 year-old young men, Betar member Pawel Frenkel and Hashomer Hatzair member Mordechai Anielewicz, commanded two resistance organizations – the Jewish Military Organization (ZZW) and the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB), which led the uprising.
On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, German troops entered the ghetto equipped with automatic weapons, artillery and armored vehicles. They were faced by a few hundred young Jews equipped with only meager weapons. The primary fighting inside the ghetto lasted 10 days. The main battle, “The Battle for the Flags”, took place in Muranowski Square between ZZW fighters led by Frenkel, who waved the Zionist flag (now the Israeli flag) and the Polish flag from one of the rooftops, and German forces commanded by General Jurgen Stroop. It took the Germans four days to subdue the resistors and remove the flags.
Shortly before the uprising broke out, Frenkel addressed a meeting of his fighters, "Comrades! We will die before our time but we are not doomed. We will live as long as Jewish history continues to live." Frenkel fell in a gun battle with German troops.
The stamp features Pawel Frenkel, commander of the Jewish Military Organization, against the background of the building on Muranowski Square that was set ablaze by the Germans. The Zionist and Polish flags raised by the ZZW fighters are visible on the roof.
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