Hugo Simon, Germany

On the commemorative postmark is German Jewish banker and politician Hugo Simon who escaped Nazi persecution and resettled in Brazil in 1941. He was also an art collector with a rather large collection that at one time included Edvard Munch's "The Scream". His collection was dispersed after being plundered by the Nazis. Hugo Simon died in Sao Paolo in 1950. The stamp in the souvenir sheet commemorates the earliest example of a letter mailed in the Americas containing a complete set of stamps: the first Brazilian postage stamps known as "bullseye" stamps.