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

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 he taught for many years at the 92nd Street Y, was placed on stage.

Collectors purchased stamps before and after the ceremony and lined up afterward for a signing session, receiving autographed programs a