One of my favorite articles, so I have decided to run the article again and share it with you all today. Ehud Avriel – an activist's diplomatic passport. Born in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Georg Überall, he was educated into accepting the notion that the right place for a Jew was not in Europe but in its promised land of Israel, then the British Mandate, occupied since 1918...
Used to immigrate to the Mandate. 1932 was the last year of the democratic republic of pre-war Germany. The Wiemar Republic that came to be after the end of the First World War, be it for the right or wrong reasons, was the most liberal and open in the country's history. All people, Jews and non-Jews, could participate in nearly every form of activity in the country: political,...
1939 exceptional J stamped passport....
1945 official passport from Yugoslavia. These passports were short lived and most likely being issued in early 1945 and being exchanged the following year by official SFRY passports. ...
From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won this territory from the Ottoman Turks, who have been occupying it for nearly 400 years...
Serving in Tel Aviv. Some of the rarest of passports to locate are those of official service in the young State of Israel. Though Israel ...
Swiss legation issued passport from 1919. Here is an important World War One travel document that was issued due to special war-time circumstances. During the First Great War of 1914-1918 not all ...
An SS officer & Swedish diplomat....
A British officials' visas throughout the years....
Very early Jewish immigration “visa” for Palestine. An attractive early Second Republic passport from 1920, the year that Poland began to print officially passports en bulk. This could be considered as the first version, with others appearing already in 1921, see sampled imprint: Drukarnia Panstwowa No 13682. 2. V .21 ...
