PARIS — It’s 1944, in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a Left Bank apartment building. The neighbors think…

The Life Of a US Diplomatic Courier – Ten Million Miles – 197 Countries Robert “Bob” LaPlante spent four decades as a U.S. Diplomatic Courier,…

German History Departmental Passport New York This passport is not only one of the earliest travel documents of Germany after the war it is also…

Swiss Passport issued in East Berlin, East Germany The Swiss / East Germany diplomatic relation began in Dec 1972 when Switzerland recognized East Germany (GDR)…

Netherlands Minister Japan Chinese Passport A random search on a auction website was leading me to this Chinese passport from 1929. A great piece of…

German Prussian Passport 1922 – Palestine Wanderer This German Prussian passport from 1922 was issued in Breslau an bears a early visa for Palestine (via…

He was on the D-Day beaches at Normandy and fought across Europe to Berlin, personally participating in the rescue of numerous concentration camps… with amazing…

Third Reich Service Passport – Musicologist Prof. Schünemann Schünemann (1884 – 1945) , the son of a rector, received his doctorate after studying music in…

1905 Imperial Korean passport The passport shown here was issued by the Imperial Korean Foreign Office in Seoul on the 27th day of the 3rd…

Lutz/Wallenberg Life Saving Passes Carl Lutz and Raoul Wallenberg are iconic names for righteous diplomats saving Jewish life in Budapest, Hungary, during the German occupation….

Passport Carl Szokoll – Stauffenberg – Valkyrie – July 20 Plot 1944, von Stauffenberg’s linkman in Vienna during the plot to assassinate Hitler. Szokoll was…

Pass Service book When I first spotted the document, I thought it’s a Wander book, but actually, this one is a pass- and service book…

Swiss History – A Helvetic Republic Passport 1798 In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over…

Meet Chaja Szkop (Polish spelling, later would have been spelled Chaya Shkop) from Bransk, born in Bielsk Podlaski in the Bialystok region of the Polish…

Two Passports of THE GREATEST Muhammad Ali At Auction One passport was already offered at an auction house before his death and a second one…

Passports Football Legend Pele The “Pele Collection” is unprecedented and extraordinary. It covers every stage of his career — both personal and professional. The collection…