Post-war British Palestinian passport

 

Exquisitely used and extended by the State of Israel in 1948.

 

This is one of my favorite British colonial issued and used passports in my collection.

 

In a previous article I wrote about the British issued travel documents in Palestine.

 

This article will bring another fine example of a British issued colonial passport in post-war Europe, with some amazing entries and additions as well.

 

Passport number 189698 was issued at Geneva, making it even more attractive sample because of it being a consular issue, which are scarcer and more desirable for us collectors.

 

The passport was issued to Berlin born Joseph Farber, a Jew, who escaped Nazi Germany before the war erupted. At the time of issuance, he was residing in Switzerland undertaking studies in chemistry-engineering, and living at Lausanne.

 

The passport is beautifully used for nearly every western European country including the desired Allied Military Government (AMG) visas, most likely for visiting his “home”.

 

An interesting addition to the passport can be found at the back, were the newly created State of Israel applied additional sheets of paper to the already over used passport, these “Israeli passport pages” have inside the AMG applied visas.

 

This passport came with two more early Israeli passports; all connected to his studies in Europe and later on travel on work related trips.

 

Due to the shear amount of pages & entries, I added only sampled selected images.

 

 

Thank you for reading “Our Passports”.