Early 1947 travel document issued by Elpidio Quirino. The Philippines have a very long and rich history. From being a Colony in the past, the Philippines finally reached independence in the mid-20th century, but only after going through a brutal Japanese occupation that brought suffering...
Very early German visa for Austria. One of the significant pre-war events of Nazi Germany was the occupation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. This act was another signal that peace in Europe would not last and alarm bells rang off in Europe. ...
Harbin issued travel document - Shortly before the Japanese occupation. 1930 was the last year before the Japanese would occupy North-Eastern China in what they would term it as t...
Visa issued inside a British Palestine passport. The Manchurian Imperial State (满洲帝国) was established or proclaimed as a state in 1932 after the Japanese invaded the territory on September 18th 1931 in what was then part of north-eastern China known also as "Dong Bei" ...
German-Soviet pre-1933 cooperation. Before Adolf Hitler came to power in January of 1933, the Soviet Union and Germany had a rich cooperation that began in the 1920's. After WWI both countries were practically in ruins and devastated economically. T...
Österreichische Verbindungsstelle in Deutschland - 1949. The passport here is very interesting, especially for historians or collectors of Allied occupational material relating to the years 1945 to 1951. Austria was bound to the Allied agreements of post-war Europe with regarding to its status and presence...
Passport for occupied Germany. The item here is one of the rarest, in my opinion, that can be discovered with connection to the allied occupation of Germany. One of my passions in collecting old passports is to polish passports from the Second Republic and also...
1947 British Palestine issued passport to Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. One of the 20th Centuries controversial authors' passport has surfaced recently. Born on May 29th 1895 to a well off Jewish family i...
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)...
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)...
