WWII Holocaust Stamps

Here's an interesting stamp issue set from Serbia (2NB15-18) under German occupation during WWII which shows anti-Masonic, anti-Jewish and anti-Communist symbols.






See: http://www.masonicinfo.com/hatestamps.htm

One of the things I find most intriguing about stamps is how they reflect the culture of their time - for the good and not so good.

I am not a WW collector per se, so I am curious if there are any stamps that commemorate the holocaust post WWII?

Yes, there are many stamps that were issued after WWII for Holocaust remembrance. One of the more interesting stamps is Poland Scott B45 from 1946 for the Majdanek concentration camp.

As well as stamps honoring one of the architects of The Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich. The below stamp is from 1943, the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.



The Nazis destroyed the entire Czech village of Lidice in retaliation for his assassination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice

The anniversary of the destruction of Lidice was commemorated on stamps many times by Czechoslovakia and probably still is on recent issues (I don't keep up on modern Czech Republic, so I don't know). Some of these are pictured below.

Here's a website that has many different Holocaust related these stamps: http://www.judaicasales.com/

If you're interested in the destruction of Lidice following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, see my exhibit: The Murder of Lidice. <http://www.exponet.info/exhibit.php...9&lng=EN>

Rugface, that's an incredible exhibit. I just spent the last hour on the site completely engrossed, and I probably only looked closely at a quarter of it. Excellent exhibit and site.

I'll second that. What a wonderfully informative exhibit. Thank you for posting a link.

Neal Montgomery: "One of the things I find most intriguing about stamps is how they reflect the culture of their time - for the good and not so good."

So must to explain, that Serbia was occupied by Germans very quickly, few weeks and it was done.
Not before occupation, and not after occupation, even not at the time of occupation, Serbian people didn't have this mentioned "culture" which are shown on postage stamp! I have in stock also FDC, of this issue, made in 1942, on the occasion of "Anti-Masonic Exhibition", which was some kind as politician pressure on public, to show occupier how gov't are loyal to "new world order". On the field, ordinary people revolted, most of people fight them (occupier), so, we can not say that was "culture of their time", but better say "culture of occupier"!

Here is an interesting Holocaust postal history collection: http://www.spungenfoundation.org/collection.html

The collection was created by Ken Lawrence, one of the US's premier philatelic writers.

It appears that the Austria 1946 anti-fascist anti-nazi set of 8 stamps has 4 stamps from that set that uses similar but reversed symbols from the Serbia 1941 under German occupation stamps.

Thank you very much, Jogil, you started and revived this interesting thread. I have several stamps about the Holocaust from around the world and will show them with time.

Thanks you posted four of the 1946 Austrian anti-fascist anti-Nazi stamps. I think followers of this thread would like to see the rest 4 stamps in the set. Here they are:

First group of stamps about the Holocaust:

"The Last Way - Babi Yar" by Yosef Kuzkovski (1920-1970), issued by Israel in 1983:

The 50th Anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, issued by Canada in 1995:

The 25th anniversary of the Crystal Night (Kristallnacht), issued by German Democratic Republic (DDR) in 1963:

owsi15797: "I am not a WW collector per se, so I am curious if there are any stamps that commemorate the holocaust post WWII?" ....

Actually we have a In't Holocaust Day, and one of modern period issue to commemorate this day, come from Slovakia, 2017 year issue, where full printing sheet is just "eye catching" by design!