Description:
Honor humanitarian Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) with this two-ounce stamp from the U.S. PostalService. A survivor of Nazi concentration camps, Wiesel fought for human rights and wasawarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His writing about the Holocaust is forever seared on thepublic consciousness.
Issued in a pane of 20, the 18th stamp in the Distinguished American series features a 1999black-and-white photograph of Wiesel in a suit and tie, with a pensive expression on his faceThe word “Humanitarian" is printed vertically over the bottom left side of the image.