Rescue efforts in Turkey
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. ...
WWII UNRRA used passport
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...
Paul Blobel
Ausweis issued to a senior Einsatzgruppen member....
Occupied China & Swiss protection
WWII used allied passport with protection endorsements inside. Following the Japanese occupation of larger sections of China, which until December of 1941 was rather limited to smaller sections of the eastern coast, not forgetting of course the earlier occupation of the North-East (Manchuria), many foreign...
German J stamped Passport for the East
Germany-USSR-Manchuria-Japan-USA. The passport, with a remarkable low SN 97, was issued at Wurzburg on April 19th 1940, and used at the end to immigrate to the United States. Escaping out of Germany was not an easy feat, especially for Jews and after the outbreak of...
Double J stamped German passport
Rare 1942 (!) consular issue. When it comes to German J stamped...
Important Diplomatic passport for Budapest
1944 Turkish travel document issued for use in occupied Hungary. One of the darkest moments in Jewish modern history was the systematic destruction of Hungary's Jewish community in 1944....
Passport with life-saving visa by Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Fall of France and the race to safety. By 1940 the conditions for Jews in Europe were getting worse by the day. Be it in direct German control, axis countries or even in neighboring relatively safer places, Jews were being hunted or under threat. It...
Entertaining the soldiers at the front – 1941
This article in the past has atracted great interest, so I have decided to run it again. WW2 German passport belonging to an actor entertaining on the front. One of the most bizarre or odd passports I have seen connected to the Second World War....
Exceptional Spanish passport
Life-saving documents. ...