Mauritius internees
Another Jewish refugee related passport....
J stamped German passport
Wien issue with refugee ID....
Post-war “ESCAPE” organization in Europe
This is part of World War Two that is not known to many. Like most nations, each country decides to focus on the section of history that glorifies or enhances its role in the Great War: The contribution of its people, its soldiers, to the...
Romania & the Holocaust
Rare VoMi issued SS Kommandobuch....
Important short-lived WWII related visa
1939 visa issued at the city of Vilnius....
The Spiegel family saga
Internment at Mauritius Island during the war. This is the story of a Jewish family that was caught in Austria of 1938, following Hitler's ...
British Mandate internment camps permit
WW2 civilian internment camp. Even though the items in this article cannot be classified as travel documents, they are important and interesting enough to add images of them and explore the story behind them. During the war, each side, be it allied or axis, established...
German national status in China after WW2
German Affairs Commission in Shanghai. The German's status situation in China after World War Two was not a simple clean cut case. During the final and decisive year of 1945, there are two periods of time that effected the status of the German nationals, followed...
London issued war-time passport
Polish Government-in-Exile 1941. Another superb example that is connected to WW2...
Sugihara & Zwartendijk life-saving visas
1938 Czech passport used to travel to the Far East. Much has been written and told about the courageous and extra ordinary Japanese individual Chiune Sempo Sugihara, when acting as Japanese consul to Lithuania in the years 1939-1940, issued close to 2,400 lifesaving visas; visas...