St. Louis – “Voyage of the Damned”
1939 exceptional J stamped passport....
A rare encounter
An SS officer & Swedish diplomat....
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....
Courageous US Diplomat
Important 1943 issued passport from South America...
Japanese life-saving-visa
1940 Geek passports used for fleeing Europe. Much has been written...
WW2 US passport with a surprise inside.
Famed US diplomat Hiram Bingham IV...
Important Shanghai issued passport
With early Israeli visa from the Far East. The document in the article here was issued in China...
The Tehran Children
and British Mandate internment camp permits. 1943...
WWII relief workers special passport
1944 issued UNRRA travel document for an official. Special US passport issued to a manager who was working for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration organization from its start. Here is a fine example of an early relief & assistance trave...
1944 Budapest – life-saving passport extension
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...