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  • Place of birth: Bergen Belsen camp
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Place of birth: Bergen Belsen camp

As indicated inside a 1965 issued passport. When one collects documents and papers from time to time one manages to locate the odd and interesting item. This can be classified as one such case. Dvora-lea Weingarten was born to Jehoshua and Rosa Weingarten (nee Gejermost)...

  • WWI passport issued to a young refugee
  • WWI refugee passport
  • WWI refugee passport
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WWI passport issued to a young refugee

1916 issued passport to a foreigner during the war. We are all familiar with the post-war refugee passports & travel documents that began to appear following the international conference headed by Fridtjof Nansen (Who headed the international department for refugees at the League of Nations)...

  • WW2 Ratline passport
  • The Ratline
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The Ratline

Post-war escape route out of Europe. What has become known today by historians, researchers and WW2 enthusiasts as one of the most infamous escape methods used by war criminals...

  • Post-war IRO & UNRRA Shanghai office.
  • Post-war IRO & UNRRA Shanghai office refugee material
  • UN offices in post-war Shanghai
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  • UN offices in post-war Shanghai
  • Post-war IRO & UNRRA Shanghai office
  • UN offices in post-war Shanghai
  • WW2 Jewish passport visa for Shanghai
  • WW2 Shanghai Ghetto
  • WW2 Shanghai refugees JOINT
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UN offices in post-war Shanghai

Post-war material for visa & travel documents usage and application. The items in this article are not actual travel documents but rather the documentation that was issued and used internally by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation offices and the International Refugees Organization that was...

  • photos of old passports
  • photos of old passports
  • Thank you all!
  • photos of old passports
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Thank you all!

It has been 10 years since this site has opened. Would like to thank everyone who has contributed in support and in kind words during this past year. Have learned much about our mutual hobby of collecting old passports and documents, and I was ver...

  • WW2 US Special passport.
  • WW2 US Special passport.
  • WW2 US Special passport.
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1934 Special passport

On official duty for serving in the US Asiatic Fleet. Pre-war issued special passport for a high ranking US navy officer that was sent to the Far East. The Asiatic Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Asiatic_Fleet existed mainly d...