Outstanding Diplomatic passport for Beijing
One of the earliest official passports used for the PRC. Early 1950 issued passport for Beijing. Used during the Korean War and at the height of the Cold War as well....
Another NKVD related travel document
being a Polish temporary internal passport from Samarkand....
Superb ambassador’s passport to North Korea
Outstanding diplomatic passport issued at the height of the Korean War. When one collects old passports and travel documents, one always tries to find the best and the rarest of items, and the item here can be considered as such. One of the most secluded and mysterious countries today, which...
The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...
Amazing set of papers used to escape France
WW2 passports, ID's & laissez-passer for a Polish soldier. The Second World War is full of fascinating stories, mixed with tales of heroism and of terror. Today these stories are kept in the form of witnessed verbal accounts and also in the form of documentation. Various archives, public and private, have stored for future generations a large...
1922 Polish NANSEN certificate
Used 3 years later for British Palestine....
MI6 agent who issued lifesaving visas – Turkey WW2
A diplomat who did the right thing. By now we are all familiar with the Righteous among the Nations, those individuals who put their life at risk and issued all the assistance possible, at the time, in order to do the right thing, showed us all that humanity does have its finest hour....
Kristallnacht related passport
A Jewess that was expelled to Zbaszyn in 1938. The events that ended up with Kristallnacht on November 9th started with an anti-Semitic action that was carried out by the SS and Gestapo the previous month. After Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938, the Polish government feared that close to 20,000 Austrian Jews (holding Polish passports) would flee and return back home, thus, in order to prevent this from happening, they declared that all such passports of those living for ...
Escaping via Spain
J stamped German passport from 1941. The passport here is interesting because of the period it was used at and the specific route chosen, mainly because after June 10th of 1940, many escape options where limited: this wa...
1952 Cold-War service passport
Diplomatic officer at the Yugoslavian embassy in Bonn. Here is an interesting official passport that was used at the newly founded West German Republic. Following the end of World War Two, Nazi Germany was occup...