Item no. S686 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Nevis

Date of issue: 2014

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Stamp of 8-stamp set (2 souvenir sheets – one with 6 stamps, the other with 2) “Graffiti art of the Berlin Wall”, issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall. The stamp presents graphic representation of a photograph "Leap into freedom", which shows the escape of a NVA [Nationale Volksarmee in DDR] soldier (Hans Conrad Schumann [1942 - 1998]) from the eastern sector of Berlin at the time of building the Berlin Wall (Overseas Press Club award for the best photograph in 1961). The photograph was taken by Peter Leibing (1941 – 2008), young photographer working for a private press agency "Conti-Press", in August 1961.