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 active before, in the process of arranging and issuing of the proper visaed travel documents for the refugees who wanted to leave China. ...
1922 Polish NANSEN certificate
Used 3 years later for British Palestine....
Thank you all!
It has been 10 years since this site has opened. Would like to thank everyone who has contributed in support and in kind words during this past year. Have learned much about our mutual hobby of collecting old passports and documents, and I was ver...
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...
Russische Vertrauensstelle in Deutschland
Russian Commission in Germany WW2 issued ID card. During the period between the two world wars, many Russians immigrated to Germany. The period is from 1918 to roughly 1942, the time shortly after the Operation Barbarossa....
1944 Attractive Axis Special Passport
Bulgarian Finance Ministry Inspector General's travel document. The last year of the war was very important with profound developments in favor of the Allies and with negative devastating prospects for the Axis powers, who were clearly by now loosing at all fronts, and the "Writing on the Wall" was now clear for everyone to see: the would-be implications that would follow...
Imperial Highway Authority (IHA)
Imperial Ethiopian Government papers. The highway system got its first major boosting in infrastructure during the Italian occupation (1936-1941). The Italian control of the country was enhanced due to its contribution in this field (by the last year of their occupation, there were about 7,000 km of roads in the country)....
UNRRA ID document
International Refugee Organization issue. After the end of World War Two, United Nations personnel or affiliated members of related organizations, working in relief and rescue efforts, spread out throughout the various countries, be it in the west or eastern part of Europe...