UNRRA History: The Agency Behind Postwar ID Papers
The UNRRA Certificate of Identity: A Passport Without a Country A UNRRA Certificate of Identity issued in Paris in 1946…
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Ivan Pavlov’s 1921 Passport | Nobel Laureate History
Inside Ivan Pavlov’s 1921 Passport: A Nobel Laureate’s Travel Document Two Soviet passports, issued in Moscow in 1921, once sat…
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Max Wünsche’s Passport: Hitler’s SS Aide
A Rare 1939 SS Officer’s Passport | Passport-Collector A handwritten number in the corner of this Reisepass, 8R/3/39, tells you…
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Agnes Hirschi: Reunion with Carl Lutz’s Stepdaughter
A Familiar Face in Bern’s Rose Garden In May 2023, I reunited with my friend Agnes Hirschi in Bern, Switzerland,…
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Sebastián de Romero: The Spanish Diplomat Who Saved Jews
The Spanish Consul Who Turned a Passport Into a Lifeline Sebastián de Romero Radigales never got a movie made about…
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Per Anger: The Swedish Diplomat Who Saved Budapest’s Jews
The Diplomat Who Forged Passports to Save Budapest’s Jews A single sheet of paper, stamped with Sweden’s three crowns and…
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German Passport History: From Prussia to Reunification
The evolution of the German passport over 200 years In 1813, as Prussia mobilized against Napoleon, movement across German territories…
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Kingdom of Saxony Passport 1892 | Passport Collector
A Saxon Traveler’s Passport From the Twilight of the Kingdom There’s a small irony sitting inside this 1892 Saxon passport:…
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Queen Savang Vadhana’s 1938 Diplomatic Passport
She Buried Every Child She Had, Then Watched Two Grandsons Become King “อ๋อ ไปส่งให้หมด พอกันที ไม่เคยไปเลยจนคนเดียว คนนี้ต้องไป หมดกันที”“I sent them…
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When Two Great American Passport Collections Find Each Other
Rare American Passport Collection Finds a New Home: From 1796 to Now The great thing is there are still fantastic…
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Lutz & Wallenberg Passes: The Simko Family Testimony
A Steel Executive’s Wife, Two Rescuers, One Unmatched Archive A Hungarian ID card, a set of business cards from a…
