2016-04-07 Thu

Russia Post released a stamp in October 2015 in the memory of the former Nazi camp at “Sobibor”. The stamp was released in the memory of the Great War, to remember Russian Victory in World War.

Sobibor was the largest Nazi extermination Camp located in German Occupied Poland. Prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, were retained in the camp.

The camp of Sobibor is especially known for the mass uprising organised by the prisoners on 14th October 1943. Though 13 prisoners were successful in crossing the fence, the uprising was one of the few attempts were done by the German Prisoners for their freedom.

The Site was later closed by the Germans and is preserved as a memorial to victims of Nazism as a legacy of humanism, heroism, and international unity.

The Stamp released 70 years after the war features the Monument which is a figure of a woman with a child at the site. This stamp worth 21 Soviet ruble displays the image of the sculpture designed by Metchislav Welter.