REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE issued on 21 March 1964 a First Day Cover stamp commemorating the "XX Anniv. de la Liberation Deportation Resistance" (20th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps) at the end of World War II.
The postage stamp and maximum card (postcard) depicted a watchtower ("mirador") and barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp. The bottom left of the image showed prisoners' hands clutching a barbed-wire fence.
It had a face value of 0.20 francs, with an additional 0.05 francs surcharge for a social or charitable cause.
Jacques Combet was the stamp engraver, whereas Jean Bernard Aldebert was the artist.
Jean Bernard Aldebert was a professional poster artist and cartoonist. His work as a committed cartoonist would cost him his freedom, with his arrest on 15 November 1943 in Balmont (Haute-Savoie) by the Gestapo. Repatriated to France on 22 August 1945, he produced 50 drawings about his experience in the concentration camps.
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