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The Righteous among the Nations
Catalogue Number:  245
Stamp Design:  Ivan Schurmann
Stamp Engraving:  Rudolf Cigánik
Date of Issue:  September 9, 2001
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing
Size of Impression:  40.0 mm x 23.0 mm
Print Run:  1,000,000
FDC Motif:  Ivan Schurmann
FDC Engraving:  Rudolf Cigánik
Cancellation Design:  Ivan Schurmann
FDC Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
FDC Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:  6,000

Since 1953 Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, has been conferring the title "Righteous among the Nations" (Chasidei Umot Haolam) to those who lent assistance to persecuted Jews in the Nazi period. In so doing they often put at risk not only their lives, but those of their loved ones. Those honoured receive a commemorative medal and the Yad Vashem Certificate of Honour; their names are entered at the institution and engraved on the Wall of Honour in Yad Vashem's Garden of the Righteous.
Among the Righteous are more than four hundred citizens of the Slovak Republic. Most of them have received this honour since 1990, when diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and Israel were renewed.
The present stamp is being issued on the occasion of the Memorial Day of Victims of the Holocaust and Racist Violence in the Slovak Republic (September 9th).

Professor Dr. Pavol Me¹»an
Director
SNM - Museum of Jewish Culture


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