Late Polish Republic passport
Pre-1952 issued sample with AMG visa. As a keen Polish passport collector...
1940 life-saving Italian visa
Issued for Lodz Ghetto resident. Much has been written about the courageous diplomats that during World War Two saved thousands of Jewish lives by issuing them life-saving visas. The list of these fantastic individuals is getting longer and longer and we are discovering more and...
WW2 Diplomatenpass
1944 Superb German Diplomatic passport. When it comes to rarities and exquisite examples relating to travel documents,...
Moscow 1932 issued German passport
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...
An early immigration officer
For the British Mandate of Palestine. Mr. Hyamson would personally review and issue himself many of the immigration application and passports themselves...
Serving in the dying Reich
Last 6 months of the war – an official's passport. Even as the war was coming to an end by the second half of 1944, some aspects continued to function "normally" as if there was no war at all: the diplomatic actions and relations ...
Polish diplomat executed
Pre-war used German passport. The passport here is a regular issued German travel document that was used before the outbreak of war in 1939. The document was issued to a citizen living in Angerburg...
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...
Chinese Diplomatic passport
Due to the interest that this document has attracted in the past, I have decided to run it again here today. Pre-war used passport for Europe up to 1944. One...
Officer’s passport issued in Bucharest
Following the German invasion of Poland from the West on September 1st and by the Red Army from the East on the 17th, thousands of refugees and soldiers fled into neighboring Romania & Hungary, poring continuously from the north...