1958 consular issued passport
Polish Peoples Republic. Consular passport number 34628/58 was issued at London on May 30th 1958 and was valid for a period of 12 months, being issued to Otylia-Elzbieta Kołodziej aged 45 from Buchowice ...
Jewish refugee in China
These Soviet passports were printed after the war for a specific purpose. They were printed by the government printing press GOZNAK in 1946.After the war, China was flooded with refugees from nearly all possible nations. But a specific type was being eyed by the neighbor up north, those former Russians, the "White Russians", who settled in north-eastern China after and ...
Diplomatic Identity Card
Issued to diplomats while serving abroad. Though not a passport, these types of documents were used by diplomats while stationed and serving abroad. Th...
1941 Italian passport used for the US
Swiss representation of Italian interests. During World War Two several countries took upon the part of representing various states ...
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941
Polish Diplomat’s signature in a passport. The months of September-October of 1939 were unique with connection to the issuing of passports, well, a specific type of passport. Following the German invasion of Poland from the West on September 1st and by the Red Army from the East on the 17th, thousands of refugees and soldiers fled into neighboring Romania & Hungary, poring continuously from the north, for a crucial period at the beginning of the war....
Serving in Moscow
1948 British diplomat's passport. Originally, the passport was not intended to be used as a DIPLOMATIC travel document, but, after its holder arrived at his place of posting...
Shanghai Ghetto
The period lasting from 1943 to 1945. This is the amazing story of the Jewish community that was living in Shanghai during World War Two and under the Japanese occupation....
War time used Polish passport
Wife of high ranking navy commander. Polish passport issued to the wife of one of Poland's pre-war navy heroes, who contributed immensely to the development of the country's army and the construction of its navy...
German passport to Iran – 1941
Truly a strange passport indeed. Traveling to Iran during the war. Issued to German business man Friedriech Bruns in 1941, Hannover, it was used to travel to Iran. ...
Interesting war-time US neutral visa
Up to the end of 1941, the United States was not at war but a neutral power. Prior to Pearl Harbor the US enacted the Neutrality Act of 1939, on November 4th, following the German invasion of Poland the Britain with France declaring war on Nazi Germany...