Stamps and Ukrainians POW in Rimini

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The Ukrainian soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, about 7000 men, were the last to be released in June 1947 before reaching new destinations in the UK or overseas ....
A Rimini were in the 5C lager until the end of 1945, then in Miramare in the Airport Lager ..... a picture from the enclosed website with beautiful photos of their captivity in Rimini

http://www.dpcamps.org/rimini.html

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A premise: always for tourism and for its proximity to San Marino in Rimini is an active center of philatelic exhibitions and demonstrations, already restarted after the end of the war (2 covers for example the stamps events of summer days in 1946 and 1947)

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in the many cultural initiatives of the Ukrainian Lager, 146 soldiers established their philatelic circle, which came into contact with the collectors of Rimini, and they were allowed to participate in their exhibitions.
They decided together to print in August 1946 a first issue (the most important) of 4 stamps, printed inside the Lager.
Were logically stamps without legal value, and were for use by collectors and to finance itself
The largest insert of the first emisisone includes all values centering on them block (not jagged due to technical problems of the printshop of Rimini Enclave)

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in Cyrillic : Ukrainian Pow camp Rimini 1946

and in english: Rimini Enklave....

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the stamps represent the life of the Ukrainian in the Rimini Enklave

10 scary
bugler between the barbed wire, with the little Orthodox church of the Lager (in Cyrillic on the stamp : Ukrainian field located in Italy)

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20 scary
a young prisoner thinks of home, while away an ukranian rebel launches a handgrenade and instill the tent of the camp...

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50 scahy
a prisoner reads a torch in the field behind the Monte Titano of San Marino Republic, symbol of freedom

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1 Kryvnia
the symbol of Ukraine, two rifles, a book and barbed-wire

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and finally (behind the sheet) the Postmark used to obliteratethe field mail

[Rene Chavez]

I have a great philatelic interest in the stamps that were used in Rimini. When I get a chance I will post some postal cards that were used in the camp. You can see some of the labels that were printed and used in the camp in my web page.

http://www.foreignvolunteerlegion.co...zienStamps.htm


Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

[mufasa]

I have a great philatelic interest in the stamps that were used in Rimini. When I get a chance I will post some postal cards that were used in the camp. You can see some of the labels that were printed and used in the camp in my web page.

http://www.foreignvolunteerlegion.co...zienStamps.htm


Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

very interesting Rene! You surely know this site from which I took the information (and the Rimini-Postcard!) .... ciao Oriano


https://sites.google.com/site/ukrainiancampofrimini/