This is part of World War Two that is not known to many. Like most nations, each country decides to focus on the section of history that glorifies or enhances its role in the Great War: The contribution of its people, its soldiers, to the war effort which culminated in the victory in May and September...
Rare VoMi issued SS Kommandobuch....
British passport and its usage in Egypt at the time. The Sinai Campaign is known also as Tripartite Aggression or in Israel as Mivzta Kadesh (Kadesh Operation)....
German New Guinea signed passport....
Soviet commissar evacuated in time. History is full of deceits, ploys and back-stabbing, and in my opinion, the one that Hitler committed on to his ally, Stalin, wou...
Issued in 1936 for official consular service in Nazi Germany. Warsaw issued to a consulate official named Alfred Matuszewski – who was stationed at the Polish consulate at Schneidemuhl (Polish named Piła) close to the German-Polish border. Before 1945 the town was in German territory. The passport was ...
New Second Republic issued document. One of the major outcomes of the First World War was the transformation it had on the old world order and the changes it brought: The world that entered into that war back in 1914 was not the same one when it ended in 1918. Most si...
1939 visa issued at the city of Vilnius....
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. Among the rare passports are those that were issued by the Soviet Union during the 1920's and 1930's, especially those issued for Jewish immigration to Palestine: The Communist authorities did not see kindly to the Zionist movement which they deemed as "counter revolutionary". ...
Two interesting visas issued inside. Another passport that surfaced recently, and at first glance seemed to be a simple and innocent looking sample, concealed inside at the end valuable information when it comes to visas and their usage inside a passport. These subtle and little crumbs that are laced inside each document, at times, can lead to a surprising find and enrich our understanding not only of the document, but to profound events in history, and in this case to the i...
