Czechoslovakia

Československo

1952, June 10th

10th anniversary of the destruction of Lidice.

The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice and the murder of about 340 residents by the occupying Germans in June 1942 in reprisal for the assassination by Czech partisans of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich.

Catalogue numbers:

Michel CS 741-742
Stamp Number CS 532-533
Yvert et Tellier CS 649-650
Stanley Gibbons CS 708-709
AFA number CS 589-590
POFIS CS 664-665