SS issued passport
From occupied Holland for travelling to Germany. May 10th 1940 is a date that will always be remembered in Europe, etched in the memory for ever. This is the day that Nazi Germany invaded its neig...
1944 Passaporto di Servizio (RSI)
Superb Italian Social Republic service issue....
Master Aviation mechanics papers
British Palestine pilots memorabilia. World War Two was fought by many brave men and women. In our minds, when we recall those fateful events during a period of 6 years and even longer, depending where the conflict took place, we automatically think of those who fought in the jungles, fields, cities, door to door combat and on the beaches. But we sometimes tend to forget, not intentionally, those "behind the scenes" that took part in every single conflict and event, those who might not ...
Aliens exit permit – China 1949
Early Communist issue for use together with a passport. The Peoples Republic of China was founded in October of that year. Years of civil war and unrest that rampaged throughout the country came to an end. The struggle to secure stability, in a nation that has seen domestic and foreign chaos for the past 100 years, was fi...
British Military Administration travel document
1949 Cyrenaica Defense Force issue (Libya). An exceptionally rare and important temporary travel document issued in liberated Libyan territory, used for immigration to Israel in 1949 with the short lived Israeli consular visa being issued at Tripoli. The North African campaign of World War Two is considered as one of the famous of the campaigns fought outside of Europe and the Pacific war zones and with important consequences to the development of the war and the eventual Al...
A true hero – Jewish diplomat
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...
Late Weimar Republic passport
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,...
St. Louis – “Voyage of the Damned”
1939 exceptional J stamped passport....
Issued for serving in Berlin
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. ...
1920 British Mandate Laissez-Passer
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...