'To see my father's face on a stamp is a gift,' Elisha Wiesel says at USPS event

(JNS) — The U.S. Postal Service dedicated a new, two-ounce stamp honoring Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during a first-day-of-issue ceremony on Tuesday at the 92nd Street Y on New York City’s Upper East Side.

The 18th which the Postal Service has issued in its distinguished Americans series, the stamp features a black-and-white portrait of Wiesel. It will serve as a permanent rate stamp for two-ounce mail.

The half-hour ceremony drew about 100 people, including Postal Service officials, New York City police officers and philatelists. Wiesel’s desk, where h...