Budapest - an immigration paradise. By beginning of 1944 the war was taking its toll on the axis and the inevitable ending was not questioned: the allies were now winning the war and it was only a question of time and the price that the losing side will have to pay and endu...
Passport & documents. Prior to 1939 many Jews found a new home in the British Mandate. Those who were lucky enough to escape Europe, before those horrific events that destroyed hundreds of Jewish communities on the continent, arrived with immigration...
Wartime issued Diplomatic Courier's passport for the Americas. The Corps of King's Messengers (or Corps of Queen's Messengers, depending on the ruling monarch at the time) are members of the British Foreign Office and /or of the Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Their task, travelling around the world to various embassies, high commissions and other diplomatic missions and hand-carry important and crucial documents. Most King's Messengers were retired army officers and usually dressed in plain clothing on business calls flights. The document here dates from 1942, Diplomatic passport No. 30...
Ministerialpass, one of the first to be issued....
Passport for occupied Germany. The item here is one of the rarest, in my opinion, that can be discovered with connection to the allied occupation of Germany. One of my passions in collecting old passports is to polish passports from the Second Republic and also to WW2 related documents and papers. The sample here combines these two topics and makes it an attractive specimen indeed....
1938-1941 Kennkarte für Juden. These were printed around August of 1938 on grey-clothed linen material, that could be folded in half and fit into a pocket-coat or bag (though Kinderausweis (ID cards for children under the age of 15) appeared already before 1939 with a hand applied red J on them). The difference between an Aryan and non-Aryan identity card is the Swas...
The period lasting from 1943 to 1945. This is the amazing story of the Jewish community that was living in Shanghai during World War Two and under the Japanese occupation....
Pre-1952 issued sample with AMG visa. As a keen Polish passport collector...
Issued for Lodz Ghetto resident. Much has been written about the courageous diplomats that during World War Two saved thousands of Jewish lives by issuing them life-saving visas. The list of these fantastic individuals is getting longer and longer and we are discovering more and more about those who risked their careers and even lives in doing the right and honorable thing....
1944 Superb German Diplomatic passport. When it comes to rarities and exquisite examples relating to travel documents,...
