WW2 US diplomatic passport
Issued to the family of a Jewish consul in Shanghai. Very interesting document issued before the US entry into the war. ...
1939 issued visa by a Japanese Diplomat
and with a connection to the Mozambique exchange of Allied and Enemy personnel. It’s not every day that one can admire a visa placed inside a passport. The image here is of a Japanese visa that was issued in Nazi Germany, hand written visa and singed with the applied red chop. ...
Kristallnacht related passport
A Jewess that was expelled to Zbaszyn in 1938. The events that ended up with Kristallnacht on November 9th started with an anti-Semitic action that was carried out by the SS and Gestapo the previous month. After Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938, the Polish government feared that close to 20,000 Austrian Jews (holding Polish passports) would flee and return back home, thus, in order to prevent this from happening, they declared that all such passports of those living for ...
Polish official passport from 1927
Used by famed chemist Leon Paweł Marchlewski. 1920's early official Foreign Ministry Polish passport No. 559/27 was issued to ...
Polish-German customs war
Official used passport for negotiations. This part of history is not that known. It does not fall under the First World War or the Second World War either. But it is connected to the former and it did affect the relations of the two countries involved for the first years after the Great War....
Escaping via Spain
J stamped German passport from 1941. The passport here is interesting because of the period it was used at and the specific route chosen, mainly because after June 10th of 1940, many escape options where limited: this wa...
Rare 1919 Batumi passport
British occupation of Georgia issued travel document. The First World War brought to an end the old political and world order that existed for centuries, and with the end of hostilities came some of the most "infamous" peace treaties that the 20th century witnessed. ...
Vatican Guard arm-band & ID
1943 issue for a member of the Holy See. Very important memorabilia from occupied Rome used over 70 years ago and an important reminder of the dark days that mankind was facing....
The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...