Why collect old passports? And what can we learn from them?
Have been interested in old travel documents and passports for over 20 years and have been focused on collecting items stemming from the era of World War Two and the H...
German national status in China after WW2
German Affairs Commission in Shanghai. The German's status situation in China after World War Two was not a simple clean cut case. During the final and decisive year of 1945, there are two periods of time that effected the status of the German nationals, followed by the Austrians, living in China. Those living under Japanese controlled and those in ‘liberated’ Chinese areas: the former were treated as allies and spared incarceration (excepting those of Jewish origin who were placed inside the “Shanghai Ghetto” in the...
Vichy France passport
Moroccan 1941 issued and used travel document. One of the short-lived "states" that was established during the war and was part of the Axis aligned states that fought the Allies during the war years....
WW2 Aden colony passport
1940 British Protectorate issued travel document. Some of the rare and most sort after passports were those issued in former colonial territories that once belonged to the...
London issued war-time passport
Polish Government-in-Exile 1941. Another superb example that is connected to WW2...
Sugihara & Zwartendijk life-saving visas
1938 Czech passport used to travel to the Far East. Much has been written and told about the courageous and extra ordinary Japanese individual Chiune Sempo Sugihara, when acting as Japanese consul to Lithuania in the years 1939-1940, issued close to 2,400 lifesaving visas; visas that aided the users, mostly Polish Jewish refugees, to survive the war....
Weimar Republic diplomatic passport
Interesting German official passport used by Foreign Office interpreter and French law expert, Dr. Fritz Nordern, who was born to a Jewish family on March 19, 1881 in Leipzig and passed away on June 28, 1932 in Geneva ...
Polish Military Mission 1946
To the Allied Control Council in Germany. Towards the end of World War Two the four powers agreed to establish in post-war Germany and Austria military liaison missions....
US stateless travel document
Manila issue from 1941. The document in this article is another remarkable testimony to the ...
Post-war women’s international conference
1945 WIDF Founding Congress - Paris. The event took place during 5 days from November 26th to the 30th. The event attracted over 800 delegates from close to 40 countries who represented 81 million women at the time. The event was summarized on the first day of December during a meeting in the "Vélodrome d'Hiver"....