One of the tragic endings of World War Two was the destruction and systematic annihilation of Hungary’s Jewish community. Germany’s last offensive operation of the war was the invasion of Hungary on March of 1944. This was known as operation Margarethe...
Post-war material for visa & travel documents usage and application. The items in this article are not actual travel documents but rather the documentation that was issued and used internally by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation offices and the International Refugees Organization that was...
International Refugee Organization issue. After the end of World War Two, United Nations personnel or affiliated members of related organizations, working in relief and rescue efforts, spread out throughout the various countries, be it in the west or eastern part of Europe...
Issued at Tehran for use in India by the Polish embassy. During World War Two countless of refugees sought refuge in Allied and neutral countries; and some even managed to find a safe haven as far away as in India....
Czechoslovakian issue used by the new Slovak puppet-state....
1949 issued at Munich – occupied Germany. The document in this article relates to the fact that not only was it a consular issue but it was most likely one of the earliest Israeli issued sample abroad, and the location makes it an important contribution...
Dying Reich’s last German passport....
Austrian travel document used for British Palestine no. 010.673 was issued to a Jewish couple originating from Romania...
WW2 JAFP stationed in Istanbul. One of the last remaining safe-havens for those in Europe by the mid-1940's and located close to the continent was the neutral country of Turkey, bordering with Bulgaria. ...
1944 travel document for an official traveling to the Middle East on refugee matters. Special US passport that was issued in the United States for a member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration organization during its first year of operation. The passport in...
