As indicated inside a 1965 issued passport. When one collects documents and papers from time to time one manages to locate the odd and interesting item. This can be classified as one such case. Dvora-lea Weingarten was born to Jehoshua and Rosa Weingarten (nee Gejermost)...
With Sicherheitsdienst amendments & entries. German passports issued and used during the war where rather limited to the locations they could be used at or travelling to and as the war progressed and worsened for them, the "traveling" destinations became limited and more acute. At...
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...
Prague issued by diplomat Shiroshichi Kimura (木村 四郎七). Cold War era issued travel certificate for a Berlin reporter. Issued at the Japanese embassy in Prague by the new ambassador Shiroshichi Kimura, who a year early arrived to open his country’s diplomatic mission, following the establishment...
SD (Sicherheitsdienst) issued visas during the war. The passport in this article is interesting and special because of the added visas inside. The destination was Norway, and by 1942, the year the passport was issued, it was under German control and entering/exiting the country was...
A public official travelling in the south. This year was a significant one with regards to the ongoing conflict. Not just in Europe, which signaled the outbreak of war on the continent, but also in Asia, where the war has been raging for years....
Armband, ID & passport. The ghetto was established at the end of 1941 in what was formerly Czechoslovakia, fully occupied since March 15th of 1939...
1947 French occupational official travel document. The document was issued by the French legation in Vienna....
Fremdenpass issued by Nazi Germany. These sorts of travel documents were issued to those residing in Germany, and though they were living legally with the proper documentation they were not citizens of the country. At some point in time, be it for travel or emigration,...
What makes this passport interesting is the location and time of its issuing. During the period of late 1941 and 1943, the capital of the Soviet Union was moved from Moscow to another city: It was decided that the new capital would be rather the...
