Born in February 1901 in Ribnitz, eastern Germany, Max Lichenheim was 7 years old when his father, a collector, gave him a cigar box filled with stamps. Two years later, the youngster had more than ...

For five years in Nazi Germany, Max and Margaret Lichenheim feared for their lives. Prohibited from practicing law in April 1933 and imprisoned after the 1938 anti-Jewish pogroms known as Kristallnach ...

Stamp collecting isn’t what it used to be. The hobby once rooted in collectors’ homes and schools and in small stamp shops scattered around the country is now grounded on the Internet. These changes ...