Escaping via Spain
J stamped German passport from 1941. The passport here is interesting because of the period it was used at and the specific route chosen, mainly because after June 10th of 1940, many escape options where limited: this wa...
The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...
1940 Soviet occupation passport
Issued to a Jew at Lwow in eastern Poland. Following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland on September 17th 1939 and of the Baltic States the following year, the issuing of new set of papers began for those who 'accepted' their new citizenship. The process...
WW2 life-saving visas from Turkey
WW2 diplomat who did the right thing. The untold story of an individual in Turkey that during the war issued visas to Jewish refugees fleeing Europe. ...
Foreigner’s Identity Document
Used to escape to British Palestine. By 1939 it was already obvious and clear to many that it was only a matter of time until war would erupt in Europe....
Escaping out of Denmark during the war
A Polish Jew's passport used to escape to freedom. The remarkable story of Denmark during World War Two and its courageous help it gave its Jewish population is an unforgettable event of that horrific war. From all the countries in Europe, Denmark’s Jewish community suffered...
Righteous Among the Nations
2017 Jerusalem awarded to a Chilean national. Chilean Diplomat Samuel del Campo....
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 ...
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 ...