This East German (GDR) passport was used for travel to Havana, Cuba, in 1978. Not many East German citizens had the chance to travel that far. In October 1962, the “Völkerfreundschaft” set course for Cuba for the first time. But the expectations of the vacationers were not to be fulfilled. The Cuban Missile Crisis was to blame. A few GDR citizens had the opportunity to travel to Cuba on the “MS Arkona”.
Billie Holiday, birth name Elinore Harris, by name Lady Day, (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York), American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959,…
Fantastic Mexican Passport 1941 For A Beautiful Woman Meet beautiful Blanca Cruz from Comitan, Cris. Mexico. Blanca was born 1907 which makes her 34 years young when her passport was issued in March 1941. Her passport shows no travels but…
World War II British Courier’s Passport – Charles Bonham-Carter issued to Major D. R. H. Gwynne, Rifle Brigade, by H.M. Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta, signed ‘Charles Bonham-Carter’, and dated The Palace, Malta, 30 August 1939. A British Courier´s passport is…
Benjamin Franklin passport mailbox It is still surprising which emails I get via my website after being ten years online (this October). Readers often ask questions about documents from relatives. “Do you know where I can get a passport copy…
Unique Croatian collective passport from February 1941 Zbyšek Šustek, Slovak Numismatic Society at Slovak Academy of Sciences Recently I have enriched my collection with a collective passport issued on 1 February 1941 to the Croatian ice hockey team for its…
The city of Petrograd was the capital of the Russian Empire from the 18th to the 20th century. Only from 1914 to 1924 was it called Petrograd. For more than 200 years, the name was St.Petersburg. British Consul Woodhouse Petrograd…
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