Chinese passport issued in Nazi Germany
Issued to a couple living in Berlin before the war. Was lucky enough to locate and add to...
1940-1941 Soviet occupation passports
Newly issued passports for former Polish & Baltic States civilians. 1939 was one of the most important years of the 20th Century. In that year alone the world’s fate and destiny changed forever: starting with the complete occupation of Czechoslovakia, Memel territory, Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and...
Indian Independence League
Japanese occupation travel document. This was a political organization that was active after World War One and up to the 1940's, during the Second World War. Its activities and members were located outside of the British Empire, in South East Asia, and they were trying...
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...
Moroccan interim French visa from 1956
French High Commission for Morocco. The French established a protectorate in Morocco that span from 1912, following the treaty of Fes, to 1956, the year of independence. The French ruled their new colony but not without opposition and unrest from within. There have been several...
Special SD emigration Kennkarte
This article has attracted interest from our fellow readers and collectors so I have re-listed it here again. Volksdeutsche returning back home from the eastern territories. Specially issued Kennkarte for those ethnic Germans returning back to the Greater Reich. The German government attached great importance...
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Early pioneer Jewish film director
1950 travel document. Following the founding of Israel the country absorbed many immigrants and among them those with vital talent who were required in the young fledgling state....
Post-WW2 occupation zone in China
The area of Luda (Dalian), Guandong, is probably the most fascinating and historically important post World War Two zones in China. Following the Red Army’s advance into North East China in September of 1945...
Al Schwimmer – the man and the vision
1958 passport used by the founder of the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). Al Schwimmer was born in 1917 in the US. His attraction to planes began at a young age and also a career with Lockheed Corporation contributed immensely to his work later on. During...
1925 Belarus Soviet passport
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The 19th Century saw an increase of Jewish immigration back to their biblical ancestral homeland in the Middle East, the Land of Israel....