WW2 Czech service passport
Consular issue for a Jewish officer in London. Passport number 214637 was issued to army captain Oskar Strompf...
Unique Soviet travel document
Issued in 1944 at Algeria. Travel documents being issued at times of war and conflict are different to those being issued during times of peace. Political and location aspects of issued samples play a major role and at times such papers are limited to a...
WW2 Indonesian issued German passport
Manchurian transit visa from Japan. Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that was singed at the end of August of that year, it was now possible for Germans, who wanted to return home either for family reunions or short brief business trips, to transit...
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...
Another AMG Stateless passport
Allied Military Government travel document. Towards the end of World War Two the allied forces liberated areas that were originally under Axis rule, starting with northern Africa, moving on to Sicily, Italy France and ending with Germany (on the European continent)....
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 Italian passport used for the US
Swiss representation of Italian interests. During World War Two several countries took upon the part of representing various states ...
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1941
Polish Diplomat’s signature in a passport. The months of September-October of 1939 were unique with connection to the issuing of passports, well, a specific type of passport. Following the German invasion of Poland from the West on September 1st and by the Red Army from the...
Shanghai Ghetto
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....
War time used Polish passport
Wife of high ranking navy commander. Polish passport issued to the wife of one of Poland's pre-war navy heroes, who contributed immensely to the development of the country's army and the construction of its navy...