WW2 civilian internment camp. Even though the items in this article cannot be classified as travel documents, they are important and interesting enough to add images of them and explore the story behind them. During the war, each side, be it allied or axis, established...
An exceptionally rare colonial passport from 1940....
French passport used for Manchuria. The Japanese occupation of North-Eastern China (1931 to 1945), a territory know in the mainland as Dong Bei (东北), has always interested me ...
1938 passport used for Shanghai. Polish passport number 136/4/38 issued at Chicago...
Have been interested in old travel documents and passports for over 20 years and have been focused on collecting items stemming from the era of World War Two and the H...
German Affairs Commission in Shanghai. The German's status situation in China after World War Two was not a simple clean cut case. During the final and decisive year of 1945, there are two periods of time that effected the status of the German nationals, followed...
Moroccan 1941 issued and used travel document. One of the short-lived "states" that was established during the war and was part of the Axis aligned states that fought the Allies during the war years....
1940 British Protectorate issued travel document. Some of the rare and most sort after passports were those issued in former colonial territories that once belonged to the...
Polish Government-in-Exile 1941. Another superb example that is connected to WW2...
1938 Czech passport used to travel to the Far East. Much has been written and told about the courageous and extra ordinary Japanese individual Chiune Sempo Sugihara, when acting as Japanese consul to Lithuania in the years 1939-1940, issued close to 2,400 lifesaving visas; visas...
