Dutch service passport for the Far East
Used by a former Holocaust survivor during 1946 to 1952. Molly van der Hoop was born to a Jewish mother named Leah Konijn in 1917, Holland. Life was rather quiet and normal until 1940, the year...
Chinese puppet government travel document
Harbin consulate general – 1943. The Japanese established several Asian puppet states throughout of Asia during the 1930's and World War Two: Manchukuo;...
Going to Manchuria in 1938
Visa issued inside a British Palestine passport. The Manchurian Imperial State (满洲帝国) was established or proclaimed as a state in 1932 after the Japanese invaded the territory on September 18th 1931 in what was then part of north-eastern China known also as "Dong Bei" (东北). The Manchurian state did not open diplomatic missions in every country. Not many approved or recognize...
The 1938 Anschluss
Very early German visa for Austria. One of the significant pre-war events of Nazi Germany was the occupation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. This act was another signal that peace in Europe would not last and alarm bells rang off in Europe. ...
Hungary before 1944
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...
Kober family saga
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...
Important King’s Messengers passport
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...
1951 early German official passport
Ministerialpass, one of the first to be issued....
Polish service passport from 1949
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....
German special issued ID’s for Jews
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...