Per Anger – an angel in a dark period of time
1946 Lebanese passport with an interesting visa. One of the darkest moments of mankind and another devastating chapter of World War Two...
1939 passport of a Katyn victim
A passport issued to a murdered medical officer. One of the horrendous and shocking massacres of World War Two was committed by the...
Post-war superb diplomatic passport
1947 issue for an attaché stationed in Moscow. The passport in this article can be considered as one of the earliest to be issued post-war for a diplomat to be stationed in the Soviet Union. After the war...
Free Territory of Trieste
Yugoslavian post-war occupational zone in Europe. This Identity Document was issued to a section that was controlled after the war by Yugoslavia, and was part of Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste - located in the north-eastern section of Italy, on the coast,...
Turkish passport used for Germany
With post-war entries from 1951. Passport number 42639 was issued to thirty year old Behiye Nevra Talay at Istanbul. The specific purpose of its issuing was for travelling to Western Germany...
German J stamped Passport for the East
Germany-USSR-Manchuria-Japan-USA. The passport, with a remarkable low SN 97, was issued at Wurzburg on April 19th 1940, and used at the end to immigrate to the United States. Escaping out of Germany was not an easy feat, especially for Jews and after the outbreak of...
The Ratline
Post-war escape route out of Europe. What has become known today by historians, researchers and WW2 enthusiasts as one of the most infamous escape methods used by war criminals...
Double J stamped German passport
Rare 1942 (!) consular issue. When it comes to German J stamped...
Israeli service passport from 1951
Used by the famed Dayan family for official business. Israeli service passports were issued with specific connection to vital government business when t...
RSI consular travel document
1944 Vienna issued for returning back home. Beautiful and RARE travel document issued to an Italian foreign worker in Nazi Germany for the return back home. The RSI ...