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. ...
Treblinka death camp
Rare Holocaust related German issued Ausweis. The term Holocaust comes from the Greek and...
A true hero – Jewish diplomat
One of my favorite articles, so I have decided to run the article again and share it with you all today. Ehud Avriel – an activist's diplomatic passport. Born in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Georg Überall, he was educated into accepting the notion...
Late Weimar Republic passport
Used to immigrate to the Mandate. 1932 was the last year of the democratic republic of pre-war Germany. The Wiemar Republic that came to be after the end of the First World War, be it for the right or wrong reasons, was the most liberal...
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....