The passports of Carl Lutz – A Swiss Hero
I have already written several articles about Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul who saved many Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. But today,…
Concentration Camp Inmate becomes Nuremberg Trial-Translator
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Native American UK Alien Registration Card
The Native Americans, a brief introduction The great expansion into the American West, which began in the 1840s, transformed America. This expansion across the Great…
East German Passport 1983 with unusual visas
My friend Mat pointed me to a captivating GDR passport from 1983 with visas to unusual destinations. The bearer was Prof. Dr. med. Dieter W….
Albert Göring post-war passport
Albert Göring was Hermann’s anti-Nazi brother. Hermann Göring was an infamous Nazi, his brother Albert a secret savior of Jews and dissidents. The remarkable story…
Book: The Soviet Passport by Albert Baiburin
Books on passport history are limited, and it’s always fantastic when a new book on the topic comes up. Albert Baiburin’s book about THE SOVIET…
Diplomatic Passport WWII B-26 Bomber-Pilot
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The Passport of German Actor + Director W. Lukschy
Wolfgang Jakob Franz Ludwig Lukschy born on October 19, 1905, in Charlottenburg and passing away on July 10, 1983, in Berlin, was a prominent German…
Military-ID USSR Officer – Stalingrad
77 years end of WWII Usually, I do not collect such documents, but this ID got my attention as such WWII Russian documents are not…
Diplomatic Passport of Eduard Schewardnadze
My website is online for over a decade, and I got many requests from readers offering documents. The email I got these days was indeed…
East German couple traveling to Cuba
East German Couple Cuba In the planned economy, travel was organized and subsidized by the state. The largest travel providers in the GDR were the…
NS German Passport – Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – Kaschau
After World War I and during the gradual break-up of Austria-Hungary, the city at first became a part of the transient “Eastern Slovak Republic,” declared…
Variety Artiste Daisy Weston travels to Finland and Russia in 1911
British passports were the only travel documents that didn’t physically describe their bearer. But Daisy’s passport already had a passport photo at a time when…
Iraq Diplomatic Passport Al-Bakr Presidency
Following the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party’s ouster from government in 1963, Al-Bakr and the party pursued underground activities and became vocal government critics. During this…
Frederic Leighton and his Travels in 19th Century
Who was Frederic Leighton? Frederic Leighton Travel Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. The recipient of…
Rare Persia Passport 1911
Not often do you find such a lovely & rare collectible from the Arabic-Islamic World. This Persian passport was issued when Persia was still a…