Students Collecting 11 Million Postage Stamps to Honor Holocaust Victims

FRCS Holocaust Stamps Project Needs Your L*O*V*E!

Save your Love stamps!

Can you imagine a love so great that in order to save your child from harm—you put them on a train to live in another country?  Imagine that you can’t go with them, and imagine that you might not ever see them again.  This thought actually defies our 21st century imaginations, but for thousands of families living in Germany this is exactly what they HAD to do to SAVE their children from the coming wave of violence and intolerance.

In progress, a new stamp collage featuring the Kindertransport. 

The Holocaust Stamps Remembrance Community Service classes celebrate this act of love that saved at least 10,000 children from the horrors of war and genocide.  This collage will be featuring Love Stamps—any stamp that features the word love.        Love stamps will be used to make the rails for  the train in the collage.  Also needed for this collage are stamps that feature children.

See below and visit the Kindertransport website indicated to learn more about this time in history!

“The first Kindertransport arrived at Harwich, England on December 2, 1938, bringing 196 children from a Berlin Jewish orphanage burned by the Nazis during the night of November 9. Most of the transports left by train from Vienna, Berlin, Prague and other major cities (children from small towns traveled to meet the transports), crossed the Dutch and Belgian borders, and went on by ship to England. Hundreds of children remained in Belgium and Holland. The transports ended with the outbreak of war in September 1939. One very last transport left on the freighter Bodegraven from Ymuiden on May 14, 1940 – the day Rotterdam was bombed, one day before Holland surrendered – raked by gunfire from German warplanes. The eighty children on deck had been brought by earlier transports to imagined safety in Holland. Altogether, though exact figures are unknown, the Kindertransports saved around 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. None were accompanied by their parents; a few were babies carried by children.” http://www.kindertransport.org/default.aspx

 Please send your Love stamps to: FRCS c/o Jamie Droste. Any and all postage stamps are accepted as progress is steadily made towards the ultimate goal of collecting 11 million stamps to honor the lives of those lost during the Holocaust.

Jamie Droste
Student Life Advisor
Foxborough Regional Charter School
131 Central Street
Foxborough, MA 02830
jdroste@foxboroughrcs.org