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New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

JL;DR SUMMARY A new United States Postal Service stamp will honor Elie Wiesel, the renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as part of their Distinguished Americans series. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorElie WieselHolocaust RemembranceNobel Peace PrizeHumanitarianUs Postal ServiceDistinguished Americans Series'Night' MemoirTwo Ounce MailJewish Figures On Stamps

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United States
"The United States Postal Service announced a new series of stamps honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel."
Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex."

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