Two German stenotypists in war-time Shanghai
One was Jewish and the other an Aryan. When collecting old passports, one makes a point to check every letter and annotation inside the document. Trying to learn more abou...
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Early pioneer Jewish film director
1950 travel document. Following the founding of Israel the country absorbed many immigrants and among them those with vital talent who were required in the young fledgling state....
Early WWII Refugee travel certificate
Plight of war, escaping to freedom. By early 1940 Europe was in war: Poland has been conquered, and Germany with Russia where jointly controlling the country. Anyone who did not manage to escape east, into Romania...
1941 Croatian (NDH) Service-Passport
WW2 passport issued to a consulate official. The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was founded on April 10th of 1941 after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. The small "new" country was actually never truly independent, since it was controlled or heavily influenced by both Germany...
First Vienna award related passport
Post-Munich Agreement passport used for Palestine in 1939. The 20th Century was one of the most violent centuries in modern history. A century of 2 world wars, each war with its own aftermath, conflicts, some that even can be felt today, already well into the...
Jewish refugee in China
These Soviet passports were printed after the war for a specific purpose. They were printed by the government printing press GOZNAK in 1946.After the war, China was flooded with refugees from nearly all possible nations. But a specific type was being eyed by the neighbor...
1941 Swiss Identity Document
Issued to the Stateless and refugees for traveling abroad. World War Two ushered many changes to the old world; changes that had a profound effect on us all and that can be felt even today...
Another NKVD related travel document
being a Polish temporary internal passport from Samarkand....
MI6 agent who issued lifesaving visas – Turkey WW2
A diplomat who did the right thing. By now we are all familiar with the Righteous among the Nations, those individuals who put their life at risk and issued all the assistance possible, at the time, in order to do the right thing, showed us...
Kristallnacht related passport
A Jewess that was expelled to Zbaszyn in 1938. The events that ended up with Kristallnacht on November 9th started with an anti-Semitic action that was carried out by the SS and Gestapo the previous month. After Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938, the...