Another sample found
Czech Jewish woman interned and freed. Last year I located a fine example of WW2 and Holocaust related travel document...
1944 Swiss refugee ID
Late war issue for a Jewish woman. When we think of Switzerland the images of good chocolate or cheese comes to mind. The country is well known for its delicacies and amazingly breathtaking scenery. These days when I go into the supermarket or the local...
Escaping out of Denmark during the war
A Polish Jew's passport used to escape to freedom. The remarkable story of Denmark during World War Two and its courageous help it gave its Jewish population is an unforgettable event of that horrific war. From all the countries in Europe, Denmark’s Jewish community suffered...
Special temporary travel document
By the end of 1943 the war was taking its toll on the axis and the inevitable ending was becoming clearer by the day as the fog and mist was evaporating, allowing the sun light ...
Manchurian visa inside a British passport
War-time Swiss protection endorsements issued at Beijing & Shanghai....
Another NKVD related travel document
being a Polish temporary internal passport from Samarkand....
The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...
Amazing set of papers used to escape France
WW2 passports, ID's & laissez-passer for a Polish soldier. The Second World War is full of fascinating stories, mixed with tales of heroism and of terror. Today these stories are kept in the form of witnessed verbal accounts and also in the form of documentation....
MI6 agent who issued lifesaving visas – Turkey WW2
A diplomat who did the right thing. By now we are all familiar with the Righteous among the Nations, those individuals who put their life at risk and issued all the assistance possible, at the time, in order to do the right thing, showed us...
Kristallnacht related passport
A Jewess that was expelled to Zbaszyn in 1938. The events that ended up with Kristallnacht on November 9th started with an anti-Semitic action that was carried out by the SS and Gestapo the previous month. After Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938, the...