First
Day Cover with commemorative stamp of the ‘Zanis Lipkes Memorials’ issue posted
on July, 4 2011.
(Special
thanks to my best friend Juris Tarvids)
Žanis (real name - Jānis) Lipke (1900-1987) is the most widely
known Latvian rescuer of Jews during the Second World War. Together with
his spouse Johanna (1904-1990) he saved at least 55 Jews in the
Nazi-occupied Latvia, later receiving the honorific Righteous among the Nations, established in 1953 by the Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Center founded by the Knesset, and a medal with the inscription Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
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