March 21, 2011
African countries honor apartheid-fighting Jews with stamps
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Three African countries issued a set of commemorative postal sheets remembering famous Jews who fought apartheid in South Africa.
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia issued the three black-and-white postal stamp sheets at the beginning of March.
“This stamp issue acknowledges the extraordinary sacrifices made by Jews to the liberation of their African brethren, and these stamps recognize some of the most significant contributors to global humanity in the 20th Century,” reads the introduction to a website dedicated to the new stamps.
The stamps honor from Liberia, Helen Suzman, Eli Weinberg, Esther Barsel and Hymie Barsel; from Sierra Leone, Yetta Barenblatt, Ray Alexander Simons, Baruch Hirson and Norma Kitson; and from Gambia, Ruth First, Hilda Bernstein, Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein and Ronald Segal.
