1922 Polish NANSEN certificate
Used 3 years later for British Palestine....
Escaping Odessa – 1919 passport
Commandement des Troupes alliées à Odessa – Le Général Commandant. A stunning connection to current events in Europe…a passport issued back in 1919 and used to escape Odessa, a city that was under occupation and ravaged by conflict and unrest…...
Polish-German customs war
Official used passport for negotiations. This part of history is not that known. It does not fall under the First World War or the Second World War either. But it is connected to the former and it did affect the relations of the two countries...
WWI passport issued to a young refugee
1916 issued passport to a foreigner during the war. We are all familiar with the post-war refugee passports & travel documents that began to appear following the international conference headed by Fridtjof Nansen (Who headed the international department for refugees at the League of Nations)...
WWI United States Special passport
Vice-Governor of the Philippine Islands official passport....
“The Department of German Interests”
This is the second sample that I have located; and would consider a rarity since not many have surfaced during my 10 years of collecting old passports...
1920 British Mandate Laissez-Passer
From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won...
“The Department of German Interests”
Swiss legation issued passport from 1919. Here is an important World War One travel document that was issued due to special war-time circumstances. During the First Great War of 1914-1918 not all ...
Corfu Island during WWI
Serbian officer's official passport. 1914 to 1918 was the war that saw borders changing, empires crumbling and new orders rising. The passport in this article will relate to a specific location during that Great War. The Island of...
1925 Turkish passport
Used by a Jewish Russian refugee....
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