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...
Weimar Republic diplomatic passport
Interesting German official passport used by Foreign Office interpreter and French law expert, Dr. Fritz Nordern, who was born to a Jewish family on March 19, 1881 in Leipzig and passed away on June 28, 1932 in Geneva ...
US stateless travel document
Manila issue from 1941. The document in this article is another remarkable testimony to the ...
Bulgaria and the Holocaust
1944 issued passport for escaping to Palestine. This is truly an amazing part of World War Two that not many are familiar with. Much has been written about the war and Holocaust with regards to western occupied Europe, Poland and the eastern states overrun in...
1941 Important Tokyo issued passport
Polish refugee to whom a Sugihara life-saving visa was issued the previous year. 1941 marked a turning point in the escalation of the war in Europe and also at the other side of the world – in Asia. This was the year that can be...
1940 Lithuanian Refugee travel certificate
Escaping occupation to freedom…1939 was one of the most important years of the 20th Century. In that year alone the world’s fate and destiny changed forever: starting with the complete occupation of Czechoslovakia, Memel territory, Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and the outbreak of World War T...
Another sample found
1939 Visa issued by a MI6 officer. The earliest sample that I located dates from a 1925 Turkish passport used for traveling to British Palestine. The last sample I have located dates from 1952, and this would indicate that he was stationed at the same...
Last train out of Prague – 1939
Escaping in the last minute. March 15th 1939 was another nail in the coffin for pre-war Europe. This was another event, warn...
February 16, 2020
Passport & Wehrpass
Much has been written and said about the infamous German passports specially issued for Jews, marked with a large J...