1941 Swiss Identity Document
Issued to the Stateless and refugees for traveling abroad. World War Two ushered many changes to the old world; changes that had a profound effect on us all and that can be felt even today...
Another NKVD related travel document
being a Polish temporary internal passport from Samarkand....
MI6 agent who issued lifesaving visas – Turkey WW2
A diplomat who did the right thing. By now we are all familiar with the Righteous among the Nations, those individuals who put their life at risk and issued all the assistance possible, at the time, in order to do the right thing, showed us...
WW2 US diplomatic passport
Issued to the family of a Jewish consul in Shanghai. Very interesting document issued before the US entry into the war. ...
1944 Attractive Axis Special Passport
Bulgarian Finance Ministry Inspector General's travel document. The last year of the war was very important with profound developments in favor of the Allies and with negative devastating prospects for the Axis powers, who were clearly by now loosing at all fronts, and the "Writing...
1939 issued visa by a Japanese Diplomat
and with a connection to the Mozambique exchange of Allied and Enemy personnel. It’s not every day that one can admire a visa placed inside a passport. The image here is of a Japanese visa that was issued in Nazi Germany, hand written visa and...
Kristallnacht related passport
A Jewess that was expelled to Zbaszyn in 1938. The events that ended up with Kristallnacht on November 9th started with an anti-Semitic action that was carried out by the SS and Gestapo the previous month. After Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938, the...
Polish official passport from 1927
Used by famed chemist Leon Paweł Marchlewski. 1920's early official Foreign Ministry Polish passport No. 559/27 was issued to ...
Polish-German customs war
Official used passport for negotiations. This part of history is not that known. It does not fall under the First World War or the Second World War either. But it is connected to the former and it did affect the relations of the two countries...
