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...
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 ...
Rare 1919 Batumi passport
British occupation of Georgia issued travel document. The First World War brought to an end the old political and world order that existed for centuries, and with the end of hostilities came some of the most "infamous" peace treaties that the 20th century witnessed. ...
The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...
Diplomatic Israeli passport – Germany 1962
Here is an interesting passport, which has strong connections to the 50 years celebrated these days between Israel and Germany, due to officially establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries....
Colonial diplomatic passport
Superb 1952 Ceylon document. Being issued originally in a regular passport then HAND changed to a diplomatic passport could possibly explain that during the first years. ...
CBI related document
1942 Kunming issued military ID. The conflict in the Far East had several important fronts and areas of battle. One important location was the region between British India and Western China, still under National Government control, and Japanese occupied Burma, which saw some of t...