The Holocaust in Albania
Liberation laissez-passer for a Jewess. 1945 Issued travel document...
Diplomatic Israeli passport – Germany 1962
Here is an interesting passport, which has strong connections to the 50 years celebrated these days between Israel and Germany, due to officially establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries....
Colonial diplomatic passport
Superb 1952 Ceylon document. Being issued originally in a regular passport then HAND changed to a diplomatic passport could possibly explain that during the first years. ...
CBI related document
1942 Kunming issued military ID. The conflict in the Far East had several important fronts and areas of battle. One important location was the region between British India and Western China, still under National Government control, and Japanese occupied Burma, which saw some of t...
First liberation documentation
Austrian first attempts of issuing ID's & travel documents. Austria was under German occupation from March 1938 to April 1945. The German take-over of the small country is termed as the Anschluss, and once under Nazi control, the Jews suffered the worst vile anti-Semitism since Hitler came to power 5 years earlier: Even in Germany itself the local Jewish population did not suffer such hardships or violent treatment in such a ...
Outbreak of war
1939 special short-lived movement Ausweis. Though this is not an actual passport or travel document, it could fall under the category of movement permits...
1950 Diplomatic passport
When it comes to rare collectibles – the item here can truly be considered as a treasure and not an item one can see every day. The combination of it being a diplomatic passport, post-WWII...
1940 Soviet occupation passport
Issued to a Jew at Lwow in eastern Poland. Following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland on September 17th 1939 and of the Baltic States the following year, the issuing of new set of papers began for those who 'accepted' their new citizenship. The process was done in several steps....
German issued foreigner-passports
Fremdenpass samples from Nazi Germany. Non-Germans who were not citizens, and wanted to go aboard, be it for travel or emigration, where issued these travel documents (special passports for foreigners). Pre-1933 Germany housed thousands of non-German...
Post-WW2 Eritrean emergency issue
British military administration issued travel document. The document was issued by the immigration office – police HQ. It was valid for a period of 1 year from date of issue. Exit visa 1036...