Africa – The postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a set of three commemorative postal sheets on Tuesday in memory of 12 Jews – men and women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.
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In the struggle against South African Apartheid, according to one of the commemorative sheets, it was estimated that Jews were overrepresented by 2,500 percent in proportion to the governing white population.
“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 text on one of the commemorative sheets.
Each sheet presents four black-and-white photos of stamps featuring the Jewish heroes. Details can be found at www.legendaryheroesofafrica.com.
The Liberian issue will show Helen Suzman, Eli Weinberg, Esther Barsel and Hymie Barsel.
The issue from Sierra Leone will display Yetta Barenblatt, Ray Alexander Simons, Baruch Hirson and Norma Kitson. The Gambian sheet will present Ruth First, Hilda Bernstein, Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein and Ronald Segal.
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What a kiddush hashem!
Excellent!
Of those twelve, only Helen Suzmann and possibly Ronald Segal were not either Stalinist or Trotskyist at the bloodiest time in Soviet history. It is because of such people that Jews in Eastern Europe became wrongly associated with the crimes of the communists and which led to massive acts of revenge by anti communists against Jews in general during WWII.
You hear so little about this. But you hear so much about the alleged Jewish role in the slave trade..