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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Consular issue for a Jewish officer in London. Passport number 214637 was issued to army captain Oskar Strompf...
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....
Issued in 1944 at Algeria. Travel documents being issued at times of war and conflict are different to those being issued during times of peace. Political and location aspects of issued samples play a major role and at times such papers are limited to a specific area or period of time, making them highly exceptional and rare, thus very attr...
Manchurian transit visa from Japan. Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that was singed at the end of August of that year, it was now possible for Germans, who wanted to return home either for family reunions or short brief business trips, to transit via the Soviet Union, Siberia, and shorten their voyage significantly. ...
Post-Munich Agreement passport used for Palestine in 1939. The 20th Century was one of the most violent centuries in modern history. A century of 2 world wars, each war with its own aftermath, conflicts, some that even can be felt today, already well into the beginning of the 21st Century....
