Post-WW2 occupation zone in China
The area of Luda (Dalian), Guandong, is probably the most fascinating and historically important post World War Two zones in China. Following the Red Army’s advance into North East China in September of 1945...
Early WWII Refugee travel certificate
Plight of war, escaping to freedom. By early 1940 Europe was in war: Poland has been conquered, and Germany with Russia where jointly controlling the country. Anyone who did not manage to escape east, into Romania...
Al Schwimmer – the man and the vision
1958 passport used by the founder of the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). Al Schwimmer was born in 1917 in the US. His attraction to planes began at a young age and also a career with Lockheed Corporation contributed immensely to his work later on. During World War Two he was a flight engineer assisting the US air transport command while working with TWA. After the war he returned back home....
German evacuation/deportation papers
The expulsion of Germans from liberated countries. One of the outcomes to the end of hostilities in Europe of 1945 was the mass reprisals and expulsion of Germans from liberated European countries. The horrific occupation and treatment of c...
1941 Croatian (NDH) Service-Passport
WW2 passport issued to a consulate official. The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was founded on April 10th of 1941 after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. The small "new" country was actually never truly independent, since it was controlled or heavily influenced by both Germany and Italy, with the latte...
Allied Control Commission for Austria
The beginning of restoration of US-Austrian relations: 1945 US special passport for Vienna. This US passport is of great importance for those who want to understand the post-war political struggles and the situation in Europe following the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies. At the Moscow conference of October 30th 1943 it was decided that the three alli...
Fleeing the Soviet Union during the war
WW2 issued refugee passport from Tehran. The Soviet Union and Poland signed the Sikorski–Mayski agreement on July 30th 1941, ...
One of Israel’s earliest PASSPORTS
4th edition and one of the first to appear in 1952. Israel’s first travel documents appeared at the end of 1948 but they were not deemed as a "passport" but rather as a travel document or Laissez-Passer. This can be tried to be explained by the fact that until 1952 there was NO citizenship or passport law in effect and it was not clear on how to classify a new citizen of the State of Israel back in the early years of its foundation and...
WW2 Czech service passport
Consular issue for a Jewish officer in London. Passport number 214637 was issued to army captain Oskar Strompf...
1925 Belarus Soviet passport
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The 19th Century saw an increase of Jewish immigration back to their biblical ancestral homeland in the Middle East, the Land of Israel....