Important Diplomatic passport for Budapest
1944 Turkish travel document issued for use in occupied Hungary. One of the darkest moments in Jewish modern history was the systematic destruction of Hungary's Jewish community in 1944....
Passport with life-saving visa by Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Fall of France and the race to safety. By 1940 the conditions for Jews in Europe were getting worse by the day. Be it in direct German control, axis countries or even in neighboring relatively safer places, Jews were being hunted or under threat. It...
Military attaché to Kabul
WW2 rarity – special passport for Afghanistan. We are all familiar with the various official passports and travel documents that were issued to be used in Europe during the war and more when it comes to German or Allied i...
In Japanese internment camp
US citizen in the Far East. When it comes to rarities and exquisite examples relating to travel documents...
Entertaining the soldiers at the front – 1941
This article in the past has atracted great interest, so I have decided to run it again. WW2 German passport belonging to an actor entertaining on the front. One of the most bizarre or odd passports I have seen connected to the Second World War....
WW2 German Service-Passport
Bucharest war time issued Dienstpass. The item here today is an attractive service passport, and what makes it extra special is the fact that it was NOT issued in Germany but at a diplomatic mission abroad....
Exceptional Spanish passport
Life-saving documents. ...
Treblinka death camp
Rare Holocaust related German issued Ausweis. The term Holocaust comes from the Greek and...
Important passport issued in Japan
1942 German passport from Yokohama....
“The Department of German Interests”
This is the second sample that I have located; and would consider a rarity since not many have surfaced during my 10 years of collecting old passports...