And a brief biography of a diplomat. September 18th 1931 was a crucial date in the history of modern China. From this month onwards, starting with Asia and ending with Europe, events would spiral from a regional conflict into a world war. The above mentioned...
WW2 JAFP stationed in Istanbul. One of the last remaining safe-havens for those in Europe by the mid-1940's and located close to the continent was the neutral country of Turkey, bordering with Bulgaria. ...
1944 travel document for an official traveling to the Middle East on refugee matters. Special US passport that was issued in the United States for a member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration organization during its first year of operation. The passport in...
Ausweis issued to a senior Einsatzgruppen member....
Passport used to smuggle to Israel its first fighter planes. Yitzhak Efraim Henenson was one of the county’s early pilots, taking part in some of the decisive battles following the delectation of Independence; before and after. The passport here is a fascinating addition to ones...
Wife of a high ranking Italian OVRA agent: Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo...
1936 issued to a consul's son. A pre-war Italian official travel document that was issued to Benito Mussolini's foreign ministry's official's family member for traveling from & back to Italy...
Surprising visa inside an early Israeli travel document....
WWII used allied passport with protection endorsements inside. Following the Japanese occupation of larger sections of China, which until December of 1941 was rather limited to smaller sections of the eastern coast, not forgetting of course the earlier occupation of the North-East (Manchuria), many foreign...
The passport was issued by the short-lived WW2 Croatian puppet-state that was established following the fall and full occupation of what...
