COVER N. 353 - GERMANY

Postmark: Petershausen 85238  28.10.2023

Posted on the 28th October; received on the 2nd November 2023

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The 70th anniversary of the Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial complex honouring the Jewish victims of one of the most hideous crimes humanity has self-perpetrated against a part of itself.

Maybe one very distant day, in Gaza, in a free and independent state, living in harmony side by side with another, maybe even sharing the same city as Capital, one such memorial will be also erected, remembering those that had no place to go, had no food to eat, had no access to basic commodities, had no access to basic health care and were constantly told to move or risk being obliterated from the face of the Earth....echoes of ghettoes.....will anyone ever kneel in remembrance and shame, some decades from now?

Horror comes in many shapes and forms: through the knifes, guns, kidnaps, rapes of alienated terrorists or the bombs and bullets of regular armies that care not for who they target.

I am proud to have a fellow Countryman that in spite of all the pressure rose to his responsibilities. Thank you Mr. Secretary General!

And thanks Alex, for the  cover, and for the opportunity of posting it here on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

- On 03AUG2023, on the 70th Anniversary of Yad Vashem, Deutsche Post issued an 0,85 € stamp illustrated with a photo of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem where Pages of Testimony, one page bios of Jews that perished in the holocaust are kept for eternal remembrance. 

. The 0.10€ stamp comes from the "flowers" series initiated in 2005. It was issued on 08JUN2017 and it depicts a Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis).

- The 0,05 € water lilly stamp is part of the "World of Letters" series and was issued on 02DEC2021.

The Postmark indicates that the letter was mailed from Peterhausen, a town in the District of Dachau, State of Bavaria.