Food rationing & passports
Shortages in Israel – 1950's....
Romania & the Holocaust
Rare VoMi issued SS Kommandobuch....
1907 exceptionally rare colonial passport
German New Guinea signed passport....
Pre-war Polish service passport
Issued in 1936 for official consular service in Nazi Germany. Warsaw issued to a consulate official named Alfred Matuszewski – who was stationed at the Polish consulate at Schneidemuhl (Polish named Piła) close to the German-Polish border. Before 1945 the town was in German territory....
Why collect old passports? And what can we learn from them?
Have been interested in old travel documents and passports for over 20 years and have been focused on collecting items stemming from the era of World War Two and the H...
Weimar Republic diplomatic passport
Interesting German official passport used by Foreign Office interpreter and French law expert, Dr. Fritz Nordern, who was born to a Jewish family on March 19, 1881 in Leipzig and passed away on June 28, 1932 in Geneva ...
Polish Military Mission 1946
To the Allied Control Council in Germany. Towards the end of World War Two the four powers agreed to establish in post-war Germany and Austria military liaison missions....
TRIESTE – Allied Identity card
Post-war occupational zone in Europe. This beautiful city is located in the north-eastern section of Italy, on the coast, situated near Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea...
Iceland honorary consuls’ passport
The passport in this article was issued to Friedrich Naschitz who was born on May 21st 1900 in Vienna and was lucky to avoid the war and the Holocaust. Travel document No. 69132 was issued on December 20th 1954 by the Ministry of Interior, Tel...
J stamped German passport from Poland
1938 Krakau issue for a young Jewish teenager. Much has been written and said about the infamous German passports specially issued for Jews, marked with a large J at the top-left corner of the first page that came out following a Swiss request from October...