Jewish Emigration From Nazi Germany
Holocaust – Jewish Emigration From Nazi Germany At the time of the Nazi takeover in 1933, there were over 500,000 Jews in Germany. Initially, the…
Passport – International Permanent Armistice Commission
international permanent armistice commission Passport (Passierschein) incl. Photo of the International Permanent Armistice Commission, issued by the Railway Headquarters in Mainz, Germany, for the assistant…
Ephemera Society Fair London
Ephemera Society Fair London As a new member, it was my first visit to this Ephemera Society Fair in London, and I had much fun…
East Germany 1955 – Very early passport
East German Passport GDR This travel document might be one of the earliest issued East German Passports. I never saw one before 1955. The first…
Important Sugihara Passport Discovered
Important Sugihara Passport Discovered Today I can report and display a document issued by one of the *”Righteous Among The Nations.” (*an honorific used by…
German Actor Schoenhals Who Faced The Nazis
His acting career ended abruptly in 1940 when the Nazi regime disapproved of him for declining to take the lead in the antisemitic propaganda movie…
Polish Aliyah Passports Index
Polish Aliyah Passports Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel. Also defined as “the act of going up”…
Fantastic Swiss Maid Wartime Passport
Swiss Maid Wartime Meet Swiss Margaretha Herta Maurer from Stetteln, Canton Bern, who worked as a housemaid in Germany during the entire WWII. Margaretha was…
US Diplomatic Passport of Robert Townsend
Diplomatic Passport Robert Townsend As often, a reader wrote to me asking for my expert opinion, but I never imagined the outcome of this case……
East German Alien Passport Type
East Germany’s (GDR) passport types consisted of a standard, service, and diplomatic passport type, but this ALIEN TYPE (for non-citizens and stateless persons) is the…
Envoy Charles Francis Adams – US Passport 1861 in London
ADAMS, Charles Francis, (son of John Quincy Adams, grandson of John Adams), A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., August 18, 1807; spent several…
GDR Passport to Cuba – Youth Festival 1978, Havana
GDR Passport Cuba Havana This East German (GDR) passport was used for travel to Havana, Cuba, in 1978. Not many East German citizens had the…
Royal Highness Prince Zeid – Diplomatic Passport
You see here the outstanding Iraq diplomatic passport from 1953 of His Royal Highness Prince Zeid al Hussein as Ambassador in London, UK. جواز سفر…
45 Passports of Adelbert von Chamisso and his family 1792-1837
Poet Adelbert von Chamisso During recent research, I found documents of Adelbert von Chamisso and dug deeper – with success. I found his estate stored…
German Architect builds America’s first Skyscrapers
German Architect America’s Skyscrapers Paul Gmelin was born in 1858 in Ulm, Germany. He assisted in planning several of New York’s first skyscrapers. He began…
Woman Fled Nazi Germany To Become US Citizen
Nazi Germany US Citizen A fantastic passport set of two travel documents of a stateless German woman who most likely fled in time from Nazi…