FRCS Holocaust Stamp Project
Stamps Collected to Date: 594,565 February 2012!
ONE POSTAGE STAMP – FOR EACH VICTIM OF THE HOLOCAUST …
Recently students working on the project shared with Mrs. Sheer – ‘In their Own Words’ what they’ve learned working on The Holocaust Stamps Project – check out these You Tube videos…… these students are inspiring, their words are touching and heartfelt:
Part 1
Part 2
The Holocaust Stamp Project by the Numbers:
- 11 million – Goal to collect in stamps
- 6 million – Jews Killed during Holocaust
- 447,470 – Stamps collected so far
- 10,000 – Stamps form the Mystic Stamp Co. in Camden, NY
- 708 – Stamps from the AMerican Legion Ladies Auxiliary of New Jersey
- 18 – Mosaics to be created with the stamps
In the News click here to read December 2011 and January 2012 articles in
The Boston Globe , The Foxboro Reporter and The Charter Advocate
The Country Gazette and The Holocaust Stamp Project
Eleven million is a huge number. One and a half million were children. Six million were European Jews. An additional five million people were killed for being “different” or resisting the seemingly endless acts of disrespect, prejudice, discrimination, and cruelty by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime during World War II.
But 11 million is an unfathomable number.
Students at Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxboro, Massachusetts have been collecting cancelled postage stamps for some time, now entering the third year of the project. They are working towards gaining an understanding of the significance of that many people having had their lives taken. They are collecting and counting one stamp, one life, at a time.
The students are learning about how one man’s intolerance and prejudice resulted in the annihilation of so many innocent victims from 21 European countries. Their study of this period in world history has revealed that the dangers of discrimination and bullying are self-evident.
Why is Foxborough Regional Charter School collecting STAMPS?
Each stamp that is collected symbolizes one wasted life, “thrown away” as having no value, much the same way as an envelope bearing a cancelled stamp postage stamp is tossed in the trash.
To date, the kindergarten to grade 12 FRCS community has trimmed and counted 594,565 cancelled postage stamps, each one representing a single life lost during the Holocaust.
The students ask many thoughtful questions, not the least of which is “Why?” And they also wonder how our world might be different today “if” one of the slain 11 million… might have been the scientist to discover the cure for cancer?
Our goal is to honor the memories the 11 million Holocaust victims and to celebrate the lives of those who still survive today and bravely share their powerful personal memories and stories.
November 2011
CSL’s first finished stamps collage, “With Liberty and Peace for All”
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Mr. Green’s Grade 5C student Kyle Ruhl cutting stamps for the project
To…
- Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, Weston, MA for donating the thousands of stamps that filled a 10-ream paper box
- Mrs. Alice Goldstein, Holocaust survivor, for her touching letter about her personal experiences, and stamps to honor friends and family she lost
- Several Professors at Curry College, Milton, MA for their collective donation of domestic and foreign stamps
- Reporters from area newspapers who have written extensive articles and shared photographs that have generated extraordinary interest and led to many more stamps donations
We welcome donations of cancelled stamps from individuals as well as businesses, anywhere in the world !
Holocaust Stamp Project
Foxborough Regional Charter School
131 Central Street, Foxboro, MA 02035
PLEASE KEEP SAVING STAMPS! If possible, sending them to us TRIMMED would be wonderful, and even BETTER if you can provide a count of how many you are donating.