Righteous Among the Nations
2017 Jerusalem awarded to a Chilean national. Chilean Diplomat Samuel del Campo....
German passport paper usage
Post-War use for lottery in 1945. Here is a fine example of post-war paper shortage usage. After the war there was an acute shortage of paper manufacturing, and we can find this in liberated countries throughout Europe and even as far as in China. Many...
WW2 Romanian Service passport
Issued to an official war correspondent with Mihai Antonescu's signature. The item here is interesting and a rarity when it comes to passport collecting. Issued in Bucharest on May 27th 1942 to Livin Valerin Martin, who was an official correspondent for the Romanian National News Agency;...
Transport 3 – destination of Lublin
Special train sent from Vienna to the east. Special transport-train to the Silesian city of Opole->Lubelskie->Pulawy, Lublin (in occupied Poland...
Post-war Philippine passport
Early 1947 travel document issued by Elpidio Quirino. The Philippines have a very long and rich history. From being a Colony in the past, the Philippines finally reached independence in the mid-20th century, but only after going through a brutal Japanese occupation that brought suffering...
Early pre-occupation Manchurian passport
Harbin issued travel document - Shortly before the Japanese occupation. 1930 was the last year before the Japanese would occupy North-Eastern China in what they would term it as t...
Austrian presence in West Germany
Österreichische Verbindungsstelle in Deutschland - 1949. The passport here is very interesting, especially for historians or collectors of Allied occupational material relating to the years 1945 to 1951. Austria was bound to the Allied agreements of post-war Europe with regarding to its status and presence...
1945 German passport
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...
Stasi informer’s 1958 Japanese travel document
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...
German passport used for Oslo
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...