Holland Jude stamp

Holland issued in 1985 four stamps that mark the 40th year since the end of WWII. This stamp carries the yellow badge with its  'Jude' caption, and another stamp shows a cemetery with Star of David on a headstone. Picture is courtesy of Oded Israeli

How Do You Draw a Star of David?

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008 

Happy New Year Card 1919

Seven Herzl’s Stars of David along with two red Stars of David of Magen David Adom (on the right margins) on a Happy New Year Card sent in 23.9.1919 from the Hebrew Battalion [Gdud Ha’iveri] at Egypt.

Copyright: Oded Israeli 2008

Rabin’s Murder

Magen David at the right bottom of this painting by Oded Israeli who wrote to me:

When my P.M. Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I painted in a row 12 paintings and thus expressed my anger. This is one of them.

Copyright: Oded Israeli 2008

Altalena Shore

Magen David  as part of Tel Aviv Municipality logo appears on the left side of this sign that marks the place where The June 1948 Altalena Affair took place. We see the ship and the [Hebrew] names of the Irgun members who died while the IDF bombed the ship, which carried weapons and fighters for the Irgun.

The Girl With the Yellow Star

Esther Lurie was born in Latvia in 1913 and lived in Israel since 1934. The Nazis caught her while she was in an exhibit in Europe and sent her to Ghetto Kovno, where she documented by her pencils the life of Jews from 1941 until 1944. This is one of her most famous works: The Girl With the Yellow Star. I wrote about is two years ago, when I started collecting yellow badge art, and now, eventually, I publish this work of art courtesy of pictorial history postcard collector Stephanie Comfort.  

Albanian Flag Hexagram

My thanks to Dr. Claude Wainstain from France who referred me to this flag with its six-pointed star, which was used when Albania struggled for its independence from Turkish possession in 1912. According to Jaume Olle from Flags Of The World website the star symbolized that “Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims shared the same sky”. Picture was copied from Flags Of The World website.