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...
Per Anger – an angel in a dark period of time
1946 Lebanese passport with an interesting visa. One of the darkest moments of mankind and another devastating chapter of World War Two...
1939 passport of a Katyn victim
A passport issued to a murdered medical officer. One of the horrendous and shocking massacres of World War Two was committed by the...
Post-war superb diplomatic passport
1947 issue for an attaché stationed in Moscow. The passport in this article can be considered as one of the earliest to be issued post-war for a diplomat to be stationed in the Soviet Union. After the war...
Free Territory of Trieste
Yugoslavian post-war occupational zone in Europe. This Identity Document was issued to a section that was controlled after the war by Yugoslavia, and was part of Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste - located in the north-eastern section of Italy, on the coast, situated near Slovenia on the Adriatic Sea....
Turkish passport used for Germany
With post-war entries from 1951. Passport number 42639 was issued to thirty year old Behiye Nevra Talay at Istanbul. The specific purpose of its issuing was for travelling to Western Germany...
German J stamped Passport for the East
Germany-USSR-Manchuria-Japan-USA. The passport, with a remarkable low SN 97, was issued at Wurzburg on April 19th 1940, and used at the end to immigrate to the United States. Escaping out of Germany was not an easy feat, especially for Jews and after the outbreak of war: Before 1939 those who got the right visas could travel WEST, going over to France, Holland, UK or other destinations such as South America and even British Palestine. But after September of that year, most options to the west...