Set of papers from occupied Lwow
Rare SS commandants signed release form. The Infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement of August 1939 paved the way to the outbreak of hostilities that would engulf the continent and then the ...
1943 Bulgarian AXIS issued passport
SS issued visas from Galicia. Three sides took part in World War Two: The Neutral countries, the Allied countries and last, the Axis countries. All sides had their causes, be it ideological, financial or other, that made them ...
Dutch service passport for the Far East
Used by a former Holocaust survivor during 1946 to 1952. Molly van der Hoop was born to a Jewish mother named Leah Konijn in 1917, Holland. Life was rather quiet and normal until 1940, the year...
Another sample found
Czech Jewish woman interned and freed. Last year I located a fine example of WW2 and Holocaust related travel document...
Special temporary travel document
By the end of 1943 the war was taking its toll on the axis and the inevitable ending was becoming clearer by the day as the fog and mist was evaporating, allowing the sun light ...
WW2 Romanian Service passport
Issued to an official war correspondent with Mihai Antonescu's signature. The item here is interesting and a rarity when it comes to passport collecting. Issued in Bucharest on May 27th 1942 to Livin Valerin Martin, who was an official correspondent for the Romanian National News Agency;...
Transport 3 – destination of Lublin
Special train sent from Vienna to the east. Special transport-train to the Silesian city of Opole->Lubelskie->Pulawy, Lublin (in occupied Poland...
The 1938 Anschluss
Very early German visa for Austria. One of the significant pre-war events of Nazi Germany was the occupation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. This act was another signal that peace in Europe would not last and alarm bells rang off in Europe. ...
Place of birth: Bergen Belsen camp
As indicated inside a 1965 issued passport. When one collects documents and papers from time to time one manages to locate the odd and interesting item. This can be classified as one such case. Dvora-lea Weingarten was born to Jehoshua and Rosa Weingarten (nee Gejermost)...
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Armband, ID & passport. The ghetto was established at the end of 1941 in what was formerly Czechoslovakia, fully occupied since March 15th of 1939...