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November 2, 2022
in Passports, WWII
by Neil

British Military Administration travel document

1949 Cyrenaica Defense Force issue (Libya). An exceptionally rare and important temporary travel document issued in liberated Libyan territory, used for immigration to Israel in 1949 with the short lived Israeli consular visa being issued at Tripoli. The North African campaign of World War Two is considered as one of the famous of the campaigns fought outside of Europe and the Pacific war zones and with important consequences to the development of the war and the eventual Al...

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October 4, 2022
in General, Holocaust, Passports, WWII
by Neil

A true hero – Jewish diplomat

One of my favorite articles, so I have decided to run the article again and share it with you all today. Ehud Avriel – an activist's diplomatic passport. Born in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Georg Überall, he was educated into accepting the notion that the right place for a Jew was not in Europe but in its promised land of Israel, then the British Mandate, occupied since 1918...

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September 15, 2022
in Holocaust, Passports
by Neil

Late Weimar Republic passport

Used to immigrate to the Mandate. 1932 was the last year of the democratic republic of pre-war Germany. The Wiemar Republic that came to be after the end of the First World War, be it for the right or wrong reasons, was the most liberal and open in the country's history. All people, Jews and non-Jews, could participate in nearly every form of activity in the country: political,...

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August 13, 2022
in Articles, General, Passports, WWI
by Neil

1920 British Mandate Laissez-Passer

From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won this territory from the Ottoman Turks, who have been occupying it for nearly 400 years...

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