Visa issued inside a British Palestine passport. The Manchurian Imperial State (满洲帝国) was established or proclaimed as a state in 1932 after the Japanese invaded the territory on September 18th 1931 in what was then part of north-eastern China known also as "Dong Bei" ...
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. ...
Budapest - an immigration paradise. By beginning of 1944 the war was taking its toll on the axis and the inevitable ending was not questioned: the allies were now winning the war and it was only a question of time and the price that the...
Passport & documents. Prior to 1939 many Jews found a new home in the British Mandate. Those who were lucky enough to escape Europe, before those horrific events that destroyed hundreds of Jewish communities on the continent, arrived with immigration...
Wartime issued Diplomatic Courier's passport for the Americas. The Corps of King's Messengers (or Corps of Queen's Messengers, depending on the ruling monarch at the time) are members of the British Foreign Office and /or of the Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Their task, travelling around the world to...
Ministerialpass, one of the first to be issued....
Passport for occupied Germany. The item here is one of the rarest, in my opinion, that can be discovered with connection to the allied occupation of Germany. One of my passions in collecting old passports is to polish passports from the Second Republic and also...
1938-1941 Kennkarte für Juden. These were printed around August of 1938 on grey-clothed linen material, that could be folded in half and fit into a pocket-coat or bag (though Kinderausweis (ID cards for children under the age of 15) appeared already before 1939 with a...
The period lasting from 1943 to 1945. This is the amazing story of the Jewish community that was living in Shanghai during World War Two and under the Japanese occupation....
Pre-1952 issued sample with AMG visa. As a keen Polish passport collector...
