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Youth Aliyah Commemoration Stamps
Youth Aliyah Commemoration Stamps
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Front: Five stamps with 'Essen '84' printed over them. Back: Image with 'Jews from Germany disembark at Jaffa (1933)' caption above a reproduced stamp with caption, 'The stamp depicted here was issued in 1983, in honour of 50 years of "Aliya" (immigration) of Jews from Germany.'
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Youth Aliyah was founded by Recha Freier on January 30, 1933, the day Hitler took power. With remarkable prescience, she sought to protect German youth from impending doom by sending them to pioneer training camps in Palestine to be educated and absorbed into kibbutzim, the indigenous farming communities. …