Colonial passport
Rare Fiji Colony travel document from 1946....
Paul Blobel
Ausweis issued to a senior Einsatzgruppen member....
Occupied China & Swiss protection
WWII used allied passport with protection endorsements inside. Following the Japanese occupation of larger sections of China, which until December of 1941 was rather limited to smaller sections of the eastern coast, not forgetting of course the earlier occupation of the North-East (Manchuria), many foreign...
1922 Polish NANSEN certificate
Used 3 years later for British Palestine....
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,...
Treblinka death camp
Rare Holocaust related German issued Ausweis. The term Holocaust comes from the Greek and...
WW2 courier document
1942 Diplomatic courier's letter. Though it is not a passport, it is in a way connected to travel documents...
1920 British Mandate Laissez-Passer
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...
A selection of visas by a PCO
A British officials' visas throughout the years....
Looks like a visa but is NOT
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...