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Polish service passport from 1949

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...

German special issued ID’s for Jews

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...

1940 life-saving Italian visa

Issued for Lodz Ghetto resident. Much has been written about the courageous diplomats that during World War Two saved thousands of Jewish lives by issuing them life-saving visas. The list of these fantastic individuals is getting longer and longer and we are discovering more and...

Serving in the dying Reich

Last 6 months of the war – an official's passport. Even as the war was coming to an end by the second half of 1944, some aspects continued to function "normally" as if there was no war at all: the diplomatic actions and relations ...

Polish diplomat executed

Pre-war used German passport. The passport here is a regular issued German travel document that was used before the outbreak of war in 1939. The document was issued to a citizen living in Angerburg...