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...
Lovely early Chinese visa – Vladivostok
Here is an early Republican Chinese entry visa for Harbin from 1920. Chinese passports are rather interesting, and the 20th century has seen various types being issued: Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist Republic and the People's Republic of China. ...
Swedish diplomat in Danzig
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...
1934 Latvian passport for the Mandate
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The Fifth Aliyah...
1852 French consular passport
First issue for use abroad....