The Protectorate
Reinhard Heydrich's rise, Prague, and the occupation machinery that forms the historical setting for the object.
Historical archive · philatelic reference · Prague 1943
The Heydrich Block
Memorial Presentation Sheets — History, Provenance and the Definitive Census
More than twenty years of research into the 1943 Heydrich Memorial Presentation Sheets, built from surviving examples, original records, newly recovered archival material, certificates and auction archives — including previously unpublished photographs where first-publication status can be established.
History · provenance · census
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The historical journey
From occupation to a numbered presentation sheet.
The Heydrich Block did not appear in isolation. Follow the sequence of people, events, ceremonies and surviving records that led to the presentation sheets of June 1943.
Operation Anthropoid
Gabčík and Kubiš attack Heydrich at the Vychovatelna bend. Photographs, maps and surviving evidence reconstruct the event and its immediate aftermath.
Death, funeral and commemoration
Heydrich's death was followed by state ceremony, propaganda and a memorial programme whose documentary traces survive in archives and photographic sequences.
The first anniversary
Prague Castle ceremonies and the first-anniversary programme provide the setting in which the serial-numbered presentation sheets were distributed.
The surviving Heydrich Blocks
Presentation sheets, numbered envelopes, certificates, auction records and photographs now allow individual examples to be traced through time.
From the research · selected evidence
The evidence is part of the story.
This is the official promotional website for The Heydrich Block. A small selection of documents, photographs and presentation sheets introduces the evidence and subjects explored more fully in the book.
“Previously unpublished photographs. Recovered archival records. Surviving objects.”
Selected research discoveries, publication news and representative images from the book will be highlighted here as the project approaches publication, including archival photographs recovered after more than two decades of research and not previously published where that status can be documented.
Archival photograph · source retained in project records
Explore the research
Three ways into the story.
01
The historical record
Heydrich, Anthropoid, reprisals, funeral and the first-anniversary memorial — including newly recovered and previously unpublished archival photographs.
02
The object
Design, printing, serial numbering, presentation envelopes and documented recipients.
03
The census
A serial-by-serial record built from collections, auction archives and photographic evidence.
What this project is
A wartime object reconstructed from the surviving record.
The Heydrich Block is a book and continuing research project devoted to the individually numbered 1943 memorial presentation sheets.
The research follows the evidence from historical context to the object itself: portrait source, design, manufacture, numbering, distribution, recipients, envelopes, surviving examples and postwar provenance.
Its emphasis is new, documented material: archival discoveries, original photographs, institutional records and surviving objects not previously brought together in one reference.
Why it is different
Rare photographs. Recovered records. Surviving objects.
Archival discoveries
More than twenty years of research has recovered rare institutional records and archival photographs, including previously unpublished images where first-publication status can be verified.
Object-led research
Serial numbers, envelopes, printing, certificates and ownership history.
A living census
Known examples reconciled across collections, auctions and archives.
Images from the research
The period seen through selected surviving photographs.
Selected original photographs and contact sheets introduce the documentary record examined in the book. Some have emerged from more than twenty years of research and appear to be previously unpublished; first-publication status is stated only where it can be established from the surviving record.
Among the material under study are photographs of the 1943 memorial programme, including registration and distribution scenes whose exact activities are being tested against captions, archival records and surviving objects. Where first-publication status can be established, individual photographs will be identified accordingly.
Inside the book
From history to the object
A historical narrative that closes in on the object.
History
Heydrich, Operation Anthropoid and the occupation context.
Production
Portrait source, printing, paper, serial numbering and distribution.
The census
A serial-by-serial record of documented surviving examples.
Publication & ordering
The Heydrich Block
Memorial Presentation Sheets — History, Provenance and the Definitive Census
J. E. Kellogg
8.5 × 11 inch hardcover · in preparation
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