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The Holocaust Stamps Project at the 1300-student kindergarten-to-grade 12 charter school in Foxboro, MA had set a goal (eight years ago) to honor the lives of 11 million Holocaust victims by collecting 11,000,000 postage stamps. Each is intended to represent one of the lives inhumanely "thrown away" as having no value (as non-philatelists treat cancelled stamps).
The children have learned about the importance of appreciating the world's diverse people, places, flora, fauna, and values from looking at the philatelic artwork, trimming and counting the stamps as they engage in lessons linked to the history behind the Project. Dozens of volunteers from the school and community have lent their time as well.
As of 10/2/16,the Holocaust Stamps Project had amassed 7,705,370 stamps from donors in 36 states and several countries.
MANY THANKS to the many SOR members who have helped the HSP reach its current total!
Stamps donations in any amount and in any condition are welcome. Please visit the HSP website for details.
PHOTO:Part of a very generous donation that arrived this summer from a Los Angeles philatelist!
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hey, Charlotte, what's that address again?
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The address for the school is:
FOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL
131 CENTRAL ST
FOXBOROUGH, MA 02035-2458
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I have a good sized box just about read to go. Do you know how many they have collected to date.
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7 million and change
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As of 11/10/2016 the Holocaust Stamps Project total was an impressive 8,199,203 stamps, 73% of the goal to collect one stamp to honor each of the 11 million lives taken by the intolerance that was the Holocaust.
It's taken 8 years, so that averages out to a million a year. However, in the inaugural year of the Project less than 25,000 were donated, and at the end of year #2, the total had barely reached 150,000!
MANY THANKS to those generous SOR members who have supported this unique educational initiative, which uses postage stamps to teach history, tolerance, acceptance, and respect for differences.
SOR members ---Please see map below which shows all the states from which stamps have been donated. None yet from Alaska...and just one, as a token, from Hawaii!
Can you help the HSP fill in the rest of the map????
Perhaps your holiday gift to yourself might be to hoe out unwanted stamps to make room for new ones in your collection
Stamps in any quantity and in any condition are welcome. They may be sent to Holocaust Stamps Project, Foxborough Regional Charter School, 131 Central St., Foxboro, MA 02035
Please include a note to indicate you're a Stamporama member!
Thanks so much
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i always have an envelope reserved for ultra common and damaged stamps for this project. it's a wonderful way to teach history
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That's the best way! Thanks again, sooooo much, for your ongoing support!
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I see you have Louisiana and New Mexico as states where you have not received stamps from. Do you go by the postmark, or people who live in those states? It's easy to get to those states. One of my sons even travels to them quite often.
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I sent from ND. 
Sorry I did not add that I was SoR member.
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I sent from Ontario, Canada but didn't mention being a stamporama member... Great project!! We've got more to send..
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Just shipped 1/2 pound of stamps. Now I'll start working on filling the box again.
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Thank you for your responses!
Lousiana can now be colored in !!!
But New Mexico is still among-the-missing.
The state which is noted in the donor's return address is the place from which the stamps are considered as donated.
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Special thanks to you, Michael! Your ongoing support makes a big difference
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I sent one pound of off-paper stamps today. That should add a few thousand more to the total. With carabop, their are now 2 donors from North Dakota.
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THANKS so much, DAKOTA and carabop!!!! I'll let the school know to watch for your box to arrive!
North Dakota has earned its place "on the (HSP) map!!!
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I sent my box earlier in the spring but received a nice thank you postcard in the fall.
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The challenge of catching up with "thank yous" is a good problem to have. Sorry it took so long for us to acknowledge your stamps donation!
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Yes it is. Everything is good, just didn't want you all to be watching for a box now that I had already sent. 
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Thanks to donors from SOR, 40 states and 5 countries, the HSP has reached 80% of its goal: 8,898,093 counted stamps as of 2/2/2017. Begun eight years ago, it looks like the Project is on track to fulfill its mission of honoring 11 million lives lost by the end of the 2017-2018 school year.
Twelve 18 x 24 inch stamps collages have been completed by students at the K-12 Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxboro, MA (yes, home of the Patriots, three more more are nearing completion and another will be started soon, with a total of 18 planned.
(In the Jewish culture, the Hebrew word for "18" also translates as "life", thus the symbolism of honoring the lives of victims with 18 artworks.)
Sets of 10 notecards, bearing images of the first collages, are being sold to underwrite costs for large-format digitizing of the artworks and upgrading all framing to museum-quality, UV-protected standards.
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I just bought a set of the note cards ad they are very nice. Turn around time was short and the site is very user friendly. I believe I will have a 5 - 6 pound box of common foreign definitives ready to send to them shortly.
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A great visual educational effort, thanks to those who are helping. I have not seen anything that describes what will eventually become of the 11 million stamps. Are there plans for some kind of permanent display?
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Don,
As soon as definitive plans have been determined I will be sure to share with the SOR community.
Ideally, the goal is to find a permanent public venue where the entire collection of 11 million stamps, 18 stamps collages, and other artifacts connected with the Project will not only be displayed and curated in a humidity-controlled environment, but will also provide a springboard to learning, discussion, and study by those who visit it.
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THANKS for your support with the purchase of Project notecards AND your forthcoming stamps donation!
Thanks, also, to whomever sent the 4 stamps from New Mexico, so NM could be colored in on our map. But we don't know who you are as there was no return address, so please send some more and tell us who you are!
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Several years ago - I remember sending a donation for this when I read about it in the old Bidstart message boards. As a large seller here via approval books - I have so much extra material that I have been thinking about getting rid of - since it is just taking up space for me now. Since I have the address again- I am going to get what I have together and send in another donation. Steve
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this is where all my unwanteds and unsellables go..... which is, when you think of it, matching the victims as seen by their 'hosts'
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Steve and David,
Many thanks for your wonderful support of the Holocaust Stamps Project!!!!!
With this kind of participation, we can expect to reach the goal number before the end of the next school year!
Charlotte
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And when the Holocaust Stamp Project has all it needs, what will we do with all our damaged and extra stamps?
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Sally,
We know that it may take years for the flow of stamps to stop arriving at the school because it will take a very long time for the word to reach the hundreds (thousands?) of folks who are aware of the HSP worldwide and across the country!
We're fortunate that the school where the Project is based, is only a half hour drive from the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History in Weston, MA. We've promised their educational director that all our "overflow" will be headed their way...probably a truckload at a time!
For SOR members, the Internet may have names of organizations that use extras and damaged stamps for various activities....I may even seek them out so I can suggest them to past HSP supporters!
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The local stamp dealer here is open only for a few hours on Tuesdays. Needing a diversion, I made a visit to his shop this morning. I hadn't been there in about nine months. Too much distraction going on the past year for me.
Anyway, he told me that he was moving to a smaller office, because the landlord jacked-up the rent too much for his current space. He needs to get rid of excess material that was selling slow, so he gave me two banker's boxes and five two-drawer file cabinets that were full of 95% used USA stamps. There has to be about a million stamps in all of this. I may be exaggerating, but I don't see how I'm exaggerating that much. I want nothing to do with this pile of stamps, so I'm going to make these stamps a little scarcer by sending them all to the project. I hope everything fits into one banker box!
So far, I have only removed a few stamps that I will do something with, and the box full of binders has stock sheets that I will use. I don't know what's all in the file drawers, but looks like more of the same. I'm just removing the stamps from whatever they were in, and dumping them loose in the box.
I don't know who's going to count all these when they arrive...
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"I don't know who's going to count all these when they arrive..."
I believe part of the instructions is that YOU count them and put them in bags with counts on them.
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"....I believe part of the instructions is that YOU count them and put them in bags with counts on them...."
Weigh them, we just had a discussion about the weight of stamps off paper. 645 Machins to the ounce, classic US definitives are similar and the routine commemoratives half tht probably 280-300 off-paper.
I am quite sure that, despite the Nazi's ghastly .reputation for precise records, the number of victims was not exactly 11,000,000 either.
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I'm still going through the stamps, removing them from stock sheets and glassines. The banker's box is about 85% full. I think it'll weigh about 20 or 25 pounds when I'm done. I guess that'll put the "load" to around 10,000 stamps.
When I'm done with this, I'm not going to look at used USA stamps for about a year!
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Just a quick update to veteran members and those newer to SOR-
The Holocaust Stamps Project at the 1300-student kindergarten-to-grade 12 charter school in Foxboro, MA had set a goal (eight years ago) to honor the lives of 11 million Holocaust victims by collecting 11,000,000 postage stamps. Each is intended to represent one of the lives inhumanely "thrown away" as having no value (as non-philatelists treat cancelled stamps).
The children have learned about the importance of appreciating the world's diverse people, places, flora, fauna, and values from looking at the philatelic artwork, trimming and counting the stamps as they engage in lessons linked to the history behind the Project. Dozens of volunteers from the school and community have lent their time as well.
As of 10/2/16,the Holocaust Stamps Project had amassed 7,705,370 stamps from donors in 36 states and several countries.
MANY THANKS to the many SOR members who have helped the HSP reach its current total!
Stamps donations in any amount and in any condition are welcome. Please visit the HSP website for details.
PHOTO:Part of a very generous donation that arrived this summer from a Los Angeles philatelist!
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hey, Charlotte, what's that address again?
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The address for the school is:
FOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL
131 CENTRAL ST
FOXBOROUGH, MA 02035-2458
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I have a good sized box just about read to go. Do you know how many they have collected to date.
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7 million and change
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As of 11/10/2016 the Holocaust Stamps Project total was an impressive 8,199,203 stamps, 73% of the goal to collect one stamp to honor each of the 11 million lives taken by the intolerance that was the Holocaust.
It's taken 8 years, so that averages out to a million a year. However, in the inaugural year of the Project less than 25,000 were donated, and at the end of year #2, the total had barely reached 150,000!
MANY THANKS to those generous SOR members who have supported this unique educational initiative, which uses postage stamps to teach history, tolerance, acceptance, and respect for differences.
SOR members ---Please see map below which shows all the states from which stamps have been donated. None yet from Alaska...and just one, as a token, from Hawaii!
Can you help the HSP fill in the rest of the map????
Perhaps your holiday gift to yourself might be to hoe out unwanted stamps to make room for new ones in your collection
Stamps in any quantity and in any condition are welcome. They may be sent to Holocaust Stamps Project, Foxborough Regional Charter School, 131 Central St., Foxboro, MA 02035
Please include a note to indicate you're a Stamporama member!
Thanks so much
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i always have an envelope reserved for ultra common and damaged stamps for this project. it's a wonderful way to teach history
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That's the best way! Thanks again, sooooo much, for your ongoing support!
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I see you have Louisiana and New Mexico as states where you have not received stamps from. Do you go by the postmark, or people who live in those states? It's easy to get to those states. One of my sons even travels to them quite often.
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I sent from ND. Sorry I did not add that I was SoR member.
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I sent from Ontario, Canada but didn't mention being a stamporama member... Great project!! We've got more to send..
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Just shipped 1/2 pound of stamps. Now I'll start working on filling the box again.
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Thank you for your responses!
Lousiana can now be colored in !!!
But New Mexico is still among-the-missing.
The state which is noted in the donor's return address is the place from which the stamps are considered as donated.
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Special thanks to you, Michael! Your ongoing support makes a big difference
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I sent one pound of off-paper stamps today. That should add a few thousand more to the total. With carabop, their are now 2 donors from North Dakota.
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THANKS so much, DAKOTA and carabop!!!! I'll let the school know to watch for your box to arrive!
North Dakota has earned its place "on the (HSP) map!!!
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I sent my box earlier in the spring but received a nice thank you postcard in the fall.
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The challenge of catching up with "thank yous" is a good problem to have. Sorry it took so long for us to acknowledge your stamps donation!
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Yes it is. Everything is good, just didn't want you all to be watching for a box now that I had already sent.
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Thanks to donors from SOR, 40 states and 5 countries, the HSP has reached 80% of its goal: 8,898,093 counted stamps as of 2/2/2017. Begun eight years ago, it looks like the Project is on track to fulfill its mission of honoring 11 million lives lost by the end of the 2017-2018 school year.
Twelve 18 x 24 inch stamps collages have been completed by students at the K-12 Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxboro, MA (yes, home of the Patriots, three more more are nearing completion and another will be started soon, with a total of 18 planned.
(In the Jewish culture, the Hebrew word for "18" also translates as "life", thus the symbolism of honoring the lives of victims with 18 artworks.)
Sets of 10 notecards, bearing images of the first collages, are being sold to underwrite costs for large-format digitizing of the artworks and upgrading all framing to museum-quality, UV-protected standards.
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I just bought a set of the note cards ad they are very nice. Turn around time was short and the site is very user friendly. I believe I will have a 5 - 6 pound box of common foreign definitives ready to send to them shortly.
Jack
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A great visual educational effort, thanks to those who are helping. I have not seen anything that describes what will eventually become of the 11 million stamps. Are there plans for some kind of permanent display?
Don
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Don,
As soon as definitive plans have been determined I will be sure to share with the SOR community.
Ideally, the goal is to find a permanent public venue where the entire collection of 11 million stamps, 18 stamps collages, and other artifacts connected with the Project will not only be displayed and curated in a humidity-controlled environment, but will also provide a springboard to learning, discussion, and study by those who visit it.
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Jack,
THANKS for your support with the purchase of Project notecards AND your forthcoming stamps donation!
Thanks, also, to whomever sent the 4 stamps from New Mexico, so NM could be colored in on our map. But we don't know who you are as there was no return address, so please send some more and tell us who you are!
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Several years ago - I remember sending a donation for this when I read about it in the old Bidstart message boards. As a large seller here via approval books - I have so much extra material that I have been thinking about getting rid of - since it is just taking up space for me now. Since I have the address again- I am going to get what I have together and send in another donation. Steve
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this is where all my unwanteds and unsellables go..... which is, when you think of it, matching the victims as seen by their 'hosts'
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Steve and David,
Many thanks for your wonderful support of the Holocaust Stamps Project!!!!!
With this kind of participation, we can expect to reach the goal number before the end of the next school year!
Charlotte
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And when the Holocaust Stamp Project has all it needs, what will we do with all our damaged and extra stamps?
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Sally,
We know that it may take years for the flow of stamps to stop arriving at the school because it will take a very long time for the word to reach the hundreds (thousands?) of folks who are aware of the HSP worldwide and across the country!
We're fortunate that the school where the Project is based, is only a half hour drive from the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History in Weston, MA. We've promised their educational director that all our "overflow" will be headed their way...probably a truckload at a time!
For SOR members, the Internet may have names of organizations that use extras and damaged stamps for various activities....I may even seek them out so I can suggest them to past HSP supporters!
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The local stamp dealer here is open only for a few hours on Tuesdays. Needing a diversion, I made a visit to his shop this morning. I hadn't been there in about nine months. Too much distraction going on the past year for me.
Anyway, he told me that he was moving to a smaller office, because the landlord jacked-up the rent too much for his current space. He needs to get rid of excess material that was selling slow, so he gave me two banker's boxes and five two-drawer file cabinets that were full of 95% used USA stamps. There has to be about a million stamps in all of this. I may be exaggerating, but I don't see how I'm exaggerating that much. I want nothing to do with this pile of stamps, so I'm going to make these stamps a little scarcer by sending them all to the project. I hope everything fits into one banker box!
So far, I have only removed a few stamps that I will do something with, and the box full of binders has stock sheets that I will use. I don't know what's all in the file drawers, but looks like more of the same. I'm just removing the stamps from whatever they were in, and dumping them loose in the box.
I don't know who's going to count all these when they arrive...
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"I don't know who's going to count all these when they arrive..."
I believe part of the instructions is that YOU count them and put them in bags with counts on them.
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"....I believe part of the instructions is that YOU count them and put them in bags with counts on them...."
Weigh them, we just had a discussion about the weight of stamps off paper. 645 Machins to the ounce, classic US definitives are similar and the routine commemoratives half tht probably 280-300 off-paper.
I am quite sure that, despite the Nazi's ghastly .reputation for precise records, the number of victims was not exactly 11,000,000 either.
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I'm still going through the stamps, removing them from stock sheets and glassines. The banker's box is about 85% full. I think it'll weigh about 20 or 25 pounds when I'm done. I guess that'll put the "load" to around 10,000 stamps.
When I'm done with this, I'm not going to look at used USA stamps for about a year!
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