Fleeing the Soviet Union during the war
WW2 issued refugee passport from Tehran. The Soviet Union and Poland signed the Sikorski–Mayski agreement on July 30th 1941, ...
One of Israel’s earliest PASSPORTS
4th edition and one of the first to appear in 1952. Israel’s first travel documents appeared at the end of 1948 but they were not deemed as a "passport" but rather as a travel document or Laissez-Passer. This can be tried to be explained by...
WW2 Czech service passport
Consular issue for a Jewish officer in London. Passport number 214637 was issued to army captain Oskar Strompf...
1925 Belarus Soviet passport
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The 19th Century saw an increase of Jewish immigration back to their biblical ancestral homeland in the Middle East, the Land of Israel....
Unique Soviet travel document
Issued in 1944 at Algeria. Travel documents being issued at times of war and conflict are different to those being issued during times of peace. Political and location aspects of issued samples play a major role and at times such papers are limited to a...
WW2 Indonesian issued German passport
Manchurian transit visa from Japan. Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that was singed at the end of August of that year, it was now possible for Germans, who wanted to return home either for family reunions or short brief business trips, to transit...
First Vienna award related passport
Post-Munich Agreement passport used for Palestine in 1939. The 20th Century was one of the most violent centuries in modern history. A century of 2 world wars, each war with its own aftermath, conflicts, some that even can be felt today, already well into the...
Another AMG Stateless passport
Allied Military Government travel document. Towards the end of World War Two the allied forces liberated areas that were originally under Axis rule, starting with northern Africa, moving on to Sicily, Italy France and ending with Germany (on the European continent)....
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...