Rescue efforts in Turkey
WW2 JAFP stationed in Istanbul. One of the last remaining safe-havens for those in Europe by the mid-1940's and located close to the continent was the neutral country of Turkey, bordering with Bulgaria. ...
WWII UNRRA used passport
1944 travel document for an official traveling to the Middle East on refugee matters. Special US passport that was issued in the United States for a member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration organization during its first year of operation. The passport in this article here is a good sample that relates to the early days of the UN and its handling of refugees during the war. The passport was used, on specific sea, air & land routes that were safe and available...
Important early NKVD signed passport
1922 Polish passport hand signed by NKVD would-be chief Genrikh Yagoda. Though not one of the first to appear from this young independent republic, formed after World War One, it has its appealing features. The passport was issued at the relatively new Polish consulate in Moscow, USSR, which was established following the Riga Treaty of March 1921. Formal relations were established on April 27, followed by the opening of diplomatic missions in...
Paul Blobel
Ausweis issued to a senior Einsatzgruppen member....
Pioneer Israeli pilot – 1948
Passport used to smuggle to Israel its first fighter planes. Yitzhak Efraim Henenson was one of the county’s early pilots, taking part in some of the decisive battles following the delectation of Independence; before and after. The passport here is a fascinating addition to ones collection of military air force and or early Israeliana 1948-1950...
Important WW2 Diplomatic passport
Wife of a high ranking Italian OVRA agent: Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo...
Fascist Italy special official passport
1936 issued to a consul's son. A pre-war Italian official travel document that was issued to Benito Mussolini's foreign ministry's official's family member for traveling from & back to Italy...
1952 laissez-passer with a twist
Surprising visa inside an early Israeli travel document....
Occupied China & Swiss protection
WWII used allied passport with protection endorsements inside. Following the Japanese occupation of larger sections of China, which until December of 1941 was rather limited to smaller sections of the eastern coast, not forgetting of course the earlier occupation of the North-East (Manchuria), many foreign civilians who up to then were living in relative safety, considering the situation, found themselves ...
Croatian Foreign Minister’s Diplomatic passport
The passport was issued by the short-lived WW2 Croatian puppet-state that was established following the fall and full occupation of what...