The Federal Republic of Germany will issue a stamp commemorating Maximilian Kolbe, who went to his death taking the place of a young father of a family at Auschwitz in 1941. The stamp has a portrait with the word “Auschwitz” seemingly hand stamped on the victim’s face.
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