35 Stamp tables - European countries. Most of them are from the 1940s. From the estate of Raymond Hyman. Apparently such tables were used by Hyman in his work as an agent who issued to countless Jews forged identification cards during the years of World War II. See below.
Stamp tables issued in Monaco, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, and other places.
Raymond Heiman [1919-2009] Born in Strasbourg, France. In his youth he worked in his father's factory for the production of shoes. Before the war he served as president of the JNF in Strasbourg. During the German occupation of France, Heiman joined the French underground and worked with Raymond Winter to hide Jews. As the Nazi ring tightened, he tried to flee to Spain With Raymond Winter and Andrew Bloom hoping to reach England, but without success, and remain in France. During the great deportation to the Drancy camp in the fall of 1942, Hyman hid and watched it from his hiding place, At the same time he strengthened his observance of the mitzvots in light of acts of devotion of Jews he witnessed. In those months he joined the Zionist youth movement MJS which alongside the EI managed to save many families, in various places of Hiding, especially children, while he was the head of the organization's finance department, and many Jews survived by him. In those months, Hyman joined the French underground and was involved in countless rescue operations with immediate danger of death hovering over him if caught. In light of his experience in forging documents, in March 1944 Hyman was appointed head of the MLN department for forging documents of the National Liberation Movement in Paris. As part of his dangerous job, Hyman provided to countless Jews forged IDs and forged documents, He created them with ingenious use of the various pronunciations of the European languages in which he was proficient, as well as thanks to his direct acquaintance with the world of European registration, through which many Jews crossed the borders of the Reich-occupied lands into freedom. This is what Hyman did until the final liberation of France by the Allies.
See Dynasty auction 9 Item 53.
Tables in different sizes. general condition very good.
