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...
WW2 courier document
1942 Diplomatic courier's letter. Though it is not a passport, it is in a way connected to travel documents...
SS issued passport
From occupied Holland for travelling to Germany. May 10th 1940 is a date that will always be remembered in Europe, etched in the memory for ever. This is the day that Nazi Germany invaded its neig...
1944 Passaporto di Servizio (RSI)
Superb Italian Social Republic service issue....
Master Aviation mechanics papers
British Palestine pilots memorabilia. World War Two was fought by many brave men and women. In our minds, when we recall those fateful events during a period of 6 years and even longer, depending where the conflict took place, we automatically think of those who...
Aliens exit permit – China 1949
Early Communist issue for use together with a passport. The Peoples Republic of China was founded in October of that year. Years of civil war and unrest that rampaged throughout the country came to an end. The struggle to secure stability, in a nation that...
British Military Administration travel document
1949 Cyrenaica Defense Force issue (Libya). An exceptionally rare and important temporary travel document issued in liberated Libyan territory, used for immigration to Israel in 1949 with the short lived Israeli consular visa being issued at Tripoli. The North African campaign of World War Two...
A true hero – Jewish diplomat
One of my favorite articles, so I have decided to run the article again and share it with you all today. Ehud Avriel – an activist's diplomatic passport. Born in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Georg Überall, he was educated into accepting the notion...
Late Weimar Republic passport
Used to immigrate to the Mandate. 1932 was the last year of the democratic republic of pre-war Germany. The Wiemar Republic that came to be after the end of the First World War, be it for the right or wrong reasons, was the most liberal...