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...
1939 issued visa by a Japanese Diplomat
and with a connection to the Mozambique exchange of Allied and Enemy personnel. It’s not every day that one can admire a visa placed inside a passport. The image here is of a Japanese visa that was issued in Nazi Germany, hand written visa and...
Chinese Diplomatic passport
Due to the interest that this document has attracted in the past, I have decided to run it again here today. Pre-war used passport for Europe up to 1944. One...
Officer’s passport issued in Bucharest
Following the German invasion of Poland from the West on September 1st and by the Red Army from the East on the 17th, thousands of refugees and soldiers fled into neighboring Romania & Hungary, poring continuously from the north...
Fleeing Poland in 1939
Crossing the border on the last day! In previous articles, I wrote extensively about the special short period of time that existed, following the outbreak of war, a short-lived "window of opportunity" that enabled thousands of refugees and military personnel, to escape into neighboring Romania...
Place of birth: Bergen Belsen camp
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)...
The Ratline
Post-war escape route out of Europe. What has become known today by historians, researchers and WW2 enthusiasts as one of the most infamous escape methods used by war criminals...
1944 Budapest – life-saving passport extension
One of the tragic endings of World War Two was the destruction and systematic annihilation of Hungary’s Jewish community. Germany’s last offensive operation of the war was the invasion of Hungary on March of 1944. This was known as operation Margarethe...
UN offices in post-war Shanghai
Post-war material for visa & travel documents usage and application. The items in this article are not actual travel documents but rather the documentation that was issued and used internally by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation offices and the International Refugees Organization that was...
1934 Special passport
On official duty for serving in the US Asiatic Fleet. Pre-war issued special passport for a high ranking US navy officer that was sent to the Far East. The Asiatic Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Asiatic_Fleet existed mainly d...