St. Louis – “Voyage of the Damned”
1939 exceptional J stamped passport....
From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won...
Very early Jewish immigration “visa” for Palestine. An attractive early Second Republic passport from 1920, the year that Poland began to print officially passports en bulk. This could be considered as the first version, with others appearing already in 1921, see sampled imprint: Drukarnia Panstwowa...
WW2 passports, ID's & laissez-passer for a Polish soldier. The Second World War is full of fascinating stories, mixed with tales of heroism and of terror. Today these stories are kept in the form of witnessed verbal accounts and also in the form of documentation....