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| The philatelist wrote: "The yellow, daffodil Star of David cheers up and gives hope". Caught by Germans, Ghetto fighters have been marked by Polish Post with yellow stars and do not seem to be happier by Star of David, they were just humiliated! |
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| Thanks to my intervention, Polish Post removed the signs used to humiliate, and isolate Jews from the photo of woman fighters. |
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| The yellow color and the yellow star of David seems to appear on the Polish stamps year 1988. 19 years after 1969 emigration. |
To cheer up?
Someone wrote on internet: "With the eyes of the "old" philatelist, I look at the new collection of anniversary stamps and observed with hope the radical rejection of martyrdom design, heavy colors and serious typography. The subject matter, is obviously dramatic, difficult, and yet it possible to overcame it. The yellow, daffodil Star of David cheers up and gives hope".
It is likely that we have to forget the martyrdom and concentrate on daffodil without any real connection beside the fake story about one of the fighters that survived and his story that he was receiving.
We have to remember that the Nazis implemented the yellow star as a means to publicly identify, humiliate, and isolate Jews. In reality, the Jews were excluded from the society. Several laws concerning Jews were approved by Nazis. Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear Yellow Star badge. This public identification and stigmatization preceded the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and killing sites. Yellow colour was used for hudred sof year to mark the Jews as a badge or yellow hats (in Iatly): Also in Sweden a yellow ribbon was suggested by City council when Jews were allowed to legally stay in Sweden. yellow badge, which meant they were excluded from society..
However, in the Warsaw ghetto, Jews wore a white armband with a blue Star of David on their left arm. In some ghettos, even babies in prams had to wear the armbands or stars. Jewish shops were also marked with the Star of David.
The star was intended not only to humiliate Jews and to mark them out for segregation and discrimination. The David Star marking made it easier to identify Jews for deportation to death camps.
Okiem „starego” filatelisty przyglądam się na nowej kolekcji rocznicowych znaczków i z nadzieją obserwuję radykalne odrzucenie martyrologicznego designu, ciężkiej kolorystyki i poważnej typografii. Tematyka, wiadomo dramatyczna, trudna a jednak można. Żółta, żonkilowa Gwiazda Dawida² rozwesela i daje nadzieje.
